Double view at the quality of life in districts (LAU1) of the Czech Republic

The economic development, observed implicitly by the level, respectively by the development of the quality of life, is characterized more or less by heterogeneous economic, social, demographic, ecologic and other indicators. Variable approach to the definition of the quality of life and its indicators is further modified in case of an investigation at the lower than the national level. The paper focuses in detail on economic and social aspects of the quality of life at the level of districts (LAU1) of the Czech Republic. Problems stem for example from unavailability of data on a given or lower hierarchy levels. In some cases, the obtained data comes from sample surveys and they can be insufficiently representative considering a lower hierarchy level. In other cases, it is not possible to analyze data obtained at higher levels. However, the information about the quality of life and its aspects at the districts and lower levels is essential, at least from the point of view their functioning and sustainable development, whose strategy is hard to define if there is a lack of data and information. The aim of the paper is to assess the possibility of using quality of life indicators at the various hierarchy levels, especially at the level of Czech districts (LAU1)

Model strategy for village development in the Czech Republic

The model strategies discussed in this article represent different ways of possible village development in the Czech Republic. We used typologies of strategies from business strategic management for their definition. Twenty municipalities, where structured interviews were carried out with their mayors, were chosen randomly from among 100 villages where a questionnaire survey was conducted in 2012 (Faltová Leitmanová, et al., 2012). Based on the qualitative analysis of the structured interview summaries, eight model strategies were ascertained. These include integration strategy, service differentiation, spending cuts, usage of municipal property, stabilization of village population, business support, fundraising, and identification of the inhabitants with the village (village pride). The most commonly applied model strategy is integration, followed by village population stabilization

Horské a podhorské oblasti Jižních Čech očima místních obyvatel

„Time accessibility“ – an example of spatial deformation generated by transport. Transport belongs to the most dynamical landscape units. Its spatial speed generates time-space compression. Growing speed of movement causes „reducing“ of geographical space which also leads to its alternative perception. By using weighted time accessibility a spatial deformation formula was created. In the research area both regions deforming space positively (time-space convergence) and regions deforming space negatively (time-space divergence) were defined and by using GIS tools these deformations were also expressed cartographically

Destination attractiveness of the South Bohemian region from the viewpoint of spatial data analysis

The aim of this paper is the evaluation of the South Bohemia region's destination attractiveness. The dimensionality of data describing the chosen attractions of the area was reduced by the factor analysis into six factors which served as an input for hot spot analysis. The hot spots analysis identifies clusters of high and low values of the factors. Cluster analysis of factor served then as a tool for a typology of the South Bohemian region according to its attractiveness for tourism. The paper shows the possibilities of spatial statistics and spatial data analysis usage in the evaluation of the area attractiveness. Obtained results can be used in the decision sphere for tourism attractions planning

Biosférická rezervace a Chráněná krajinná oblast Třeboňsko

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Perceptions of Czech Rural Life by its Inhabitants in Connection to Tourism

Rural tourism in the EU Member States is an important segment of the tourist market. Rural areas achieve multiple benefits from developing rural tourism. From this point of view, rural tourism revitalises rural areas, decreases depopulation, enables the valorisation of economic resources, etc. On the other hand, rural tourism highlights, and thus preserves, the cultural, environmental, natural, traditional, and historical characteristics of a specific rural area. In this way, the regional diversity, authenticity, and recognisability are maintained in the united Europe, which provides a competitive advantage to the European Union's tourist market. However, bottom-up initiatives within the local communities and appropriate attitudes towards the development of tourism are important. The aim of this contribution is to evaluate the perceptions of Czech rural life by its population with a focus on tourism. The evaluation is a part of a broad-based questionnaire survey aimed at the assessment of different aspects of rural life. The perceptions of tourism are monitored in conjunction with other characteristics of self-assessment by respondents and their assessment of the villages in which they live. Classical dependencies of the obtained data from the survey were analysed at first, and then multidimensional statistical methods (CATegorical Principal Component Analysis, cluster analysis) were used in the hypothesis testing of the interference of "hard" and "soft" factors of the rural development. This comparison confirms that "hard" and "soft" development factors really affect each other. Therefore, rural development strategies need to be designed so that both sets of factors are in line with the aim of synergy. The hard localization and realization factors themselves, without supporting the development of soft factors, do not have the desired effect

Perception of regional development processes by local inhabitants on the example of The Třeboňsko Biosphere Reserve

The main goal of this paper is to create a simple review of the regional development processes perception by local inhabitants. Results of the questionnaire survey realized in the period 1999-2001. The design of the questionnaire used in the survey was adopted from the survey realized in the Kocába region in the period 1995-1997 (Bičík, Perlín and Šefrna, 2001). There is also a need to analyse the results relating not only to natural conditions, limits and barriers arising from the status of The Protected Landscape Area. The attention is also paid to the development tendencies in the connection with the tourism development as the phenomenon whose intensity has been recently increasing1141215