01 / 2014 / Volume 3

Urban tourism has become a significant phenomenon of tourism over the last decade. The importance of urban tourism has grown mainly due to the development of transport and information technologies. Rapid advancement of low cost airlines and reduction of administrative barriers owing to the expansion of the Schengen area caused not only the development of a number of urban destinations, including Prague, but also the growth of new source markets. This paper compares the development of urban tourism in Prague with the situation in Vienna and Budapest in the last decade. The aim of the paper is to describe the main trends of tourism development and the geographic distribution of tourism in Prague in comparison with culturally and historically similar cities – Vienna and Budapest. The analysis shows high load of tourism in Prague and its strong concentration in the old city. This causes congestion in the city centre and an extrusion of residential functions by the functions of tourism. As a result, a tourism ghetto has been formed in the centre of Prague and the urban society has been increasingly dualized.

In the world scale, there are various forms of how the hunting tourism is carried out. There is a considerably specific situation in the Czech Republic originating in the historical development. The assessment of the diversification of the demand for tourist activities was chosen to be the aim of this article. This assessment is based on a questionnaire survey among tourism participants who consume the specific products of the hunting tourism in the tourist regions of Bohemian Forest and South Bohemia. A guided tour in a game enclosure with a professional commentary and wildlife observation showed to be the most interesting offer. The most important
thing is the identification of five main segments of demand called “ordinary” gamekeeper’s hunting, “occasional” gamekeeper’s hunting, angling activities, hunting without the killing and complementary activities. The differences among the latter five segments were identified in the representation of respondents as far as their gender and their membership in a community of anglers or gamekeepers are concerned.

This paper was elaborated on the basis of a ground work and in the next stage the primary data was processed and analyzed. According to the ground research, this article explores features of cultural rural tourism in the region of Liberec. The perceptions of 500 tourists were examined and their responses were analyzed by a statistical program. The results could be used to improve or promote the tourist services in the selected tourist destinations. Some visitor’s preferences were detected in terms of cultural rural activities, natural and rural landscape. In the Liberec region were confirmed the richness of nature, cultural heritage, social life in local communities and their traditions. The correspondence analysis between reasons were made of the visitors responses.

Social tourism is a form of tourism that takes into account the participation of physically or socially handicapped individuals, and at the same time the social tourism activities are in accordance with the environmental sustainability of the territory. In the Czech Republic the social tourism has been supported at the national level since 2010 by the National Tourism Support Programme. This paper is aimed at the evaluation of social tourism support in the Czech Republic in the period of 2010-2012. The evaluation is performed by regions and target groups (families with children, young people under 26 years, seniors and the disabled). The other aim is to identify which model of social tourism was implemented in the Czech Republic during the period of 2010-2012.