<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Besides more traditional tourist enterprises, tourists in Western Europe and North America regularly seek out even more specific forms of tourist opportunities, such as products of rural tourism. Within rural tourism, agritourism has been developed in these countries as a particular subset, and its significant enhancement in post-socialist European countries was widely anticipated (especially after their integration into the European Union). While considerable and focused attention was devoted to the implementation of agritourism strategies and the characterization of agritourist space with respect to particular countries (e.g. Poland and Slovenia), in Czech geographical literature it has remained a noticeably absent topic. In this paper, central attention is paid to selected characteristics of agritourist space in the Czech Republic, analyzed on the basis of a compiled database of farms diversified into tourism at the municipality level.</p></abstract>

Besides more traditional tourist enterprises, tourists in Western Europe and North America regularly seek out even more specific forms of tourist opportunities, such as products of rural tourism. Within rural tourism, agritourism has been developed in these countries as a particular subset, and its significant enhancement in post-socialist European countries was widely anticipated (especially after their integration into the European Union). While considerable and focused attention was devoted to the implementation of agritourism strategies and the characterization of agritourist space with respect to particular countries (e.g. Poland and Slovenia), in Czech geographical literature it has remained a noticeably absent topic. In this paper, central attention is paid to selected characteristics of agritourist space in the Czech Republic, analyzed on the basis of a compiled database of farms diversified into tourism at the municipality level.

Geographical Perspectives on Agritourism in The Czech Republic

Department of Regional Development and Public Administration, Mendel University Tř. Generála Píky 7, 313 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Agroturismus v České republice: geografická perspektiva

Besides more traditional tourist enterprises, tourists in Western Europe and North America regularly seek out even more specific forms of tourist...

Geographical Perspectives on Agritourism in The Czech Republic

Published Online: Jul 29, 2014

Page range: 15 - 23

Received: May 30, 2013

Accepted: Feb 16, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2014-0002

Keywords
agritourism, agritourism space, rural areas, European Union, Czech Republic

© 2014 Ondřej Konečný

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Geographical Perspectives on Agritourism in The Czech Republic

Published Online: Jul 29, 2014

Page range: 15 - 23

Received: May 30, 2013

Accepted: Feb 16, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2014-0002

Keywordsagritourism, agritourism space, rural areas, European Union, Czech Republic

© 2014 Ondřej Konečný

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
agritourism, agritourism space, rural areas, European Union, Czech Republic