E4 Tourism and Second Homes
Jiří Vágner
Tuesday, May 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The lecture gives an essential insight into the research, development and statistics of inbound, outbound and domestic tourism in Czechia with focus on regional aspects, SWOT analysis, tourism management and recent risk factors – overtourism and pandemics and migration crises threats.
The second part presents a long-term research of the Leisure Geography Research Centre on specific form of tourism – second homes – with focus on factors of development, regional distribution, new activities and perspectives related to the pandemic.
• Incoming tourism – image of Czechia
• Development with the focus on the transition period, importance for national economy, flows of foreign tourists, specifics of nationalities, pandemics effects
• Outgoing tourism – historical development, prevailing flows
• Regional aspects – concentration and regional differentiation; major forms, regions, destinations, UNESCO World Heritage
• Nature conservation aspects, role of domestic tourism
• SWOT analysis
• Tourism management – institutional aspects, challenges for future – effects of pandemics and migration crisis
• Second home tourism – general features, historical development
• Statistics, international comparison
• Regional distribution – concentrations (focused on regions visited during the excursion)
• Leisure Geography Research Center surveys – sources, methods
• Characteristics of second homes and their owners – questionnaire survey results in model regions
• Contemporary trends (conversion to residential function, internationalization and commercialization, (holiday resorts, „Dutch villages“, recreational apartments, identity of regions)
• Role of second homes in pandemics time
• Perspectives (demographic changes, tax system, migration effects)
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