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The aim of the article is to determinate the level of socio-economic development and level of tourism development in seaside communities in Poland. There are four parts of the article, where author shows the way of data collection and methods used to present both of phenomens which were studied as well as shows it’s interdependence. The local authorities opinion about ways of entreprenurship development stimulation was also presented. The researches were carried in 2009. To present the results of researches there were used method of analisys and comparison as well as taksonomic method and tebular method.