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A basis for the identification of potential tourist development areas was defined as a combined use of the model of area load by visitors, the territorially-located database of tourist attractions, and the perception of their attractiveness by visitors. A distinctive inequality was identified in the area load and the distribution of tourist attractions. The areas of development were determined on the basis of a difference between the relative attendance and the relative attractiveness of the partial territorial units of a regular hexagonal network, sized approximately 3 km2, with a concurrent requirement of above-average total attractiveness

A Model for the Identification of Areas Favourable for the Development of Tourism: A Case Study of the Šumava Mts. and South Bohemia Tourist Regions (Czech Republic)

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Department of Trade and Tourism, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences,v. v. i. Drobného 28, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Department of Biological Studies, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice Okružní 517/10, 370 01, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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A basis for the identification of potential tourist development areas was defined as a combined use of the model of area load by visitors, the...

A Model for the Identification of Areas Favourable for the Development of Tourism: A Case Study of the Šumava Mts. and South Bohemia Tourist Regions (Czech Republic)

Published Online: Jul 30, 2013

Page range: 25 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2013-0003

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