Detailed Information on Publication Record

This book deals with ways to overcome regional disparities through the development of domestic and inbound tourism. Tourism in the European Union, including the Czech Republic, is often regarded, and cited in various documents, as a tool for reducing or even eliminating socio-economic disparities due to its potentially highly positive economic impact in the region. The main objective of project WD-37-07-2, “Research on Domestic and Incoming Foreign Tourism in Relation to Mitigating Socio-economic Disparities,” and of the present publication is to improve and expand the capacity and range of tourist attractions, including their connections, to enhance the economic recovery in areas and regions with the highest socio-economic disparities, and to gradually reduce these disparities. The aim of this book is to define and propose specific practices for mitigating or gradually eliminating disparities with the help of tourism development. Knowledge from abroad, especially from European countries, includes a number of specific examples of tourism being used to successfully develop socio-economically underdeveloped areas (e.g. areas with low employment opportunities, with declining industry, and rural areas), to diversify their economic activities, and to overcome structural changes. Based on an analysis of current trends and expected developments in the world tourism market, the development of tourism in the Czech Republic was analyzed, focusing on the types, forms, and products at destinations within a regional and local development framework. Current disparities were analyzed in selected regions of the Czech and Slovak Republics, focusing on possibilities for their mitigation and elimination through internal tourism development.