Tourism In The Czech Republic

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In Europe, the tourism plays a vital role in the development of many European regions, especially those regions which are marked by no significant concentration of industry and commerce. As such this sector of national economy was target of European support from the Cohesion policy funds in the 2007 – 2013 period. The funds very especially abundant in the Czech Republic where the distribution was, however, dispersed among a number of operational programmes within the Cohesion policy framework. This paper aims to analyse the support for tourism in the Czech Republic on the administrative level of municipalities and focus on targeting of lagging regions of the Czech Republic.

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According to the research by Mello-Sampayo & Sousa-Vale (2010), which took a place between the years 1988-2010, there is a statistically significant relationship between the level of the gross domestic product of the European Union and the intensity of the tourism. This relationship grows stronger the farther in the south is the member state located. The Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund can provide the necessary financial support to increase the competitiveness and quality of the tourism services at a regional and local level. Tourism is therefore an important tool for integrating less developed regions so that they can also benefit from the economic growth. Between 2007 and 2013, the European Union directly targeted support for the tourism industry under the Cohesion policy with amount exceeding EUR 6 bn within the European Regional Development fund. This planned intervention represented 3.1 % of the total budget of said fund. Further expenditure were targeting entrepreneurs directly connected to tourism such and hotels and restaurants (European Union …show more content…

Rather significant improvement should occur due to the efforts such as the creation of a new conception of the state tourism policy for the period 2014-2020, which was prepared in conjunction with the marketing concept of tourism for the period 2013-2020 by the Czech Tourism Agency. The new policy is, with regard to the application of a wide range of innovative approaches to the promotion of tourism, a promise for the future, which will be associated with the use of funds to promote tourism in the next programming period of the European Union. Among other activities, it is possible to mention the continued work of the Czech system of service quality as an instrument for the operators in the tourism industry to improve its services and the implementation of several printed statistical aggregations of tourism. Especially the census of the accommodation establishments has brought very interesting results. It is possible to successfully evaluate the continuation of the National Tourism Support Programme by means of which specific projects in the field of social tourism have been supported (Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic

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