scholarly journals Limiting factors in the field of business activities in rural tourism

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Ryglová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
The Individual

This paper deals with problems of rural tourism development. The works is focused on researching the situation in the area of rural tourism in the Czech Republic, on understanding the attitudes of entrepreneurial sphere and rural population to this entrepreneurship and mainly on the determination of limiting factors that prevent this form of tourism from a more distinctive development. Rural tourism in the Czech Republic is still in the initiating stage of its development and it is not as developed as in some countries in West Europe. This goal has been reached with the help of primary questionnaire inquiry among business and agricultural subjects in rural areas in the individual regions and the detail results of this questionnaire inquiry are enclosed to the following paper. These identified factors were mainly insufficient financial means and at the same time insufficient state assistance connected with this. Insufficient awareness of this support as well as its inaccessibility for small business appears to be a difficulty, too. From the other obstacles, we can mention the current legislation system, bureaucracy, the state of communication and tourist infrastructure, fears of neighbours’ intolerance and losing privacy and also unfamiliarity and little experience.

scholarly journals Differences Among Czech Local Action Groups In Using Selected Principles Of Leader

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pechrová ◽  
K. Boukalová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Second Step ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Individual Features ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Action Groups

Abstract Local Action Groups (LAGs) are implementing LEADER principles in rural development. The aim of the paper is to create a typology of LAGs in the Czech Republic according to the factors linked to the individual features of LAG and to its organizational background. Four different groups of LAGs emerged: ‘stabilized’, ‘experienced’, ‘absorbing’, and ‘well-informed’. In the second step, it is assessed how particular groups fullfil selected features of the LEADER: knowledge transfer and bottomup approach. We conclude that ‘stabilized’ and ‘experienced’ LAGs, which are functioning for longer time and LAGs’ manager has longer experiences with LAG operation, have better knowledge transfer than those ‘absorbing’ or ‘well-informed’. This suggests that the rural development is realized by the so-called ‘project class’. On the other hand, the most active people cooperating with LAG management are in ‘experienced’ and ‘absorbing’ groups.

scholarly journals Analysis of Tourism and Agrotourism Management in the Czech Republic and Austria

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-824
Author(s):  
Eva Šimková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Key Factor

The paper discusses the importance of rural tourism and sustainable rural areas development. It highlights the role of tourism in dealing with problems of rural areas and agriculture sector in the Czech Republic. After theoretical description of a system approach to rural tourism development, the author continues by a practical part where she compares tourism and agrotourism management in the Czech Republic and Austria. Austria has been chosen as a representative of a state with developed tourism system and tourism management. Selected aspects of management systems are then compared and proposed for improvement in tourism/agrotourism. Critical key factor for successful development of activities in rural areas (therefore including agrotourism services) are then presented.

scholarly journals Proof of authenticity of pure instant coffee

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 165-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bohačenko ◽  
Z. Veselý
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Hplc Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Instant Coffee ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hplc Technique ◽  
Total Glucose ◽  
Refractometric Detection

An HPLC method with refractometric detection was worked out for the determination of the limiting contents of marker saccharides (free mannitol and total glucose and xylose) used for the proof of authenticity of pure instant coffee. This method, even though more laborious, yields results comparable with those obtained by the HPAE-PAD method and is intended mainly for those laboratories where the current HPLC technique with refractometric detection is presently used for saccharide analysis. The survey of market supply showed that instant coffee imported in bulk and subsequently packaged in the Czech Republic is most frequently adulterated – only one out of 7 samples examined contained authentic coffee. On the other hand, only one out of 10 samples of instant coffee imported in original packaging did not meet the authenticity criteria. The samples of instant coffee by domestic producers indicated that one producer placed on the market an adulterated product, whereas the other brand is authentic coffee.

scholarly journals Predisposition of drought occurrence in selected arid areas of the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Stredová ◽  
Jaroslav Rožnovský ◽  
Tomáš Streda
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Drought Severity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mean Variance ◽  
Drought Occurrence

Abstract Predisposition of drought occurrence is based on combined evaluation of above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation. According to the weight of the individual categories of extremity, the five degrees of predisposition to drought were determined (degree 1 is the lowest risk, degree 5 is the highest risk). Evaluation of temperature extremity is based on the determination of abnormality in comparison with average value and standard deviation. Individual categories of extremity of precipitation are determined by comparing the individual monthly data with percentile values. Monthly data of homogenized technical series of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute were evaluated for the years 1961-2010 in two climatologically dry areas (Breclav and Kladno county in the Czech Republic). Fourty-two months were rated risky in Breclav county and fourty-four in Kladno county. The evaluation shows an increase of predisposition to drought, especially after 1990. The highest incidence of degree 5 was recorded in 2001 to 2010 in vegetation season. Subsequently the drought variability as a mean variance of years/season and drought severity as a sum of degree of predisposition to drought of years/season were assessed. A gradual increase of variability and severity from 1961-1970 to 2001-2010 is visible. The lowest values of variability (maximum 2) and severity (maximum 3) in both counties were recorded in winter.

scholarly journals The analysis of customer behaviour in accommodation services after 1989 in the Czech Republic

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 518-529
Author(s):  
K. Ryglová ◽  
I. Vajčnerová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Statistical Evaluation ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Customer Behaviour ◽  
Technical Base ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medium Businesses

Hospitality services rank among significant realisation factors of tourism. Due to its increasing importance and high potential, tourism falls into significant elements effecting a possible development of rural areas, especially in the area of maintaining and supporting small and medium businesses. This paper deals with the issues of customer behaviour in the Czech Republic with the emphasis on hospitality services. The main purpose was to identify and analyse development changes in customer behaviour in the area of these services. The pursuit of revealing the causes of such established changes and finding possible links and connections between the individual factors was an inseparable part of it. Furthermore, we compare the materially-technical base and the existing accommodation services in the period after 1989 with the contemporary situation and we also outline new trends in customer behaviour in the Czech Republic. To reach these set targets, a secondary date analysis was conducted and after that, a primary research in the form of questionnaire survey among consumers was carried out. During the statistical evaluation of the research, the frequency of the occurrence of each question was evaluated (e.g. Information on accommodation facilities is usually found on the Internet for 64% of respondents.), then dependences among verbal features were measured and the expressed hypotheses were tested (e.g. The assumption: less than 30% people are looking for accommodation in the category from 201 CZK to 300 CZK was not rejected and so we can say that approximately 30% people find their accommodation in the category 201–300 CZK). Important results of the conducted surveys with the relevant discussions are a part of this paper.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Stallions Based on Linear Description of Their Daughters

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbora Králová ◽  
Iva Jiskrová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Female Offspring ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Horse Breeding ◽  
Central Register ◽  
Linear Description

The purpose of our work was an objective evaluation of mares of the Czech warmblood horse based on the linear description, as well as the evaluation of the benefits of stallion breeding based on the linear description of their daughters and – for specific stallions – the evaluation of certain individual exterior traits which are passed on by stallions to their offspring. Stallion horses with at least 7 descendants were used for the evaluation and determination of the values, mares which underwent a linear description of traits at the age of 3 years. For this evaluation we used available data from the year 1996 to 2012, a total including 251 stallions and 4709 mares and more than 500 000 records related to the linear description. The data were gathered from the database of the Central Register of Horse Breeding at Slatińany in the Czech Republic. These data were manually compiled using Excel 2007 and then processed and evaluated according to the objectives of the present study using the linear model GLM as well as the statistical programme Scheffe. The results of the study showed a convincing statistical influence of the stallions on all the monitored exterior traits analyzed on the mares for the father‑factor, and after evaluating all the general exterior traits the statistical difference among the stallions was seen as convincing. We found out that in most cases the breed had no convincing statistical influence on the analyzed traits of the linear description. On the contrary, in terms of the other effects (father and year of measurement) we found a convincing statistical influence on all traits of the linear description. For some stallions we evaluated particular traits of linear description, which they pass on to their female offspring using charts and graphics. Afterwards we compared reciprocally certain stallions according to the traits of the linear description.

scholarly journals Disparity between the districts of the Czech Republic according to the indicators of de­ve­lop­ment potential

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Dufek ◽  
Bohumil Minařík
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Source Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

The paper deals with the analysis of disparity between the regions of the Czech Republic according to 6 indicators determined for the evaluation of implementation of the project approved by the government ‘Strategy of Regional Development of the Czech Republic for the Years 2007–2013’. The source data relating to the year 2007 were obtained from the web pages of the Czech Statistical Office. Charts were drawn up describing the level of indicators according to the respective regions and according to the whole file of regions; after that, characteristics of the level and variability were established. Since the indicators have different units of measurement and level, the original data were converted to standardized variables; on the basis of this, interregional differences were evaluated using cluster analysis and the regions were divided into homogenous groups. The key result of the work is quantification of the level of the development potential of the individual regions of the Czech Republic through total indexes of regional development and determination of the order of the regions. Charts were also drawn to illustrate the order of the regions.

scholarly journals Collection of road tax in the years form 1993–2011 in the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Břetislav Andrlík
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Time Axis ◽  
Tax Collection ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Absolute Increase ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the position of road tax in the tax system of the Czech Republic. It focuses on the analysis of road tax collection in the years 1993–2011 and the determination of reasons for change in the collection amount in the individual monitored years, especially in connection to amendment of the basic law, which is law No. 16/1993, Road Tax Code. Within the frame of the analysis not only the absolute collection of road tax is quantified and discussed, but also basic statistic indicators are calculated, e.g. growth rate or absolute increase of road tax collection. Part of the paper deals with the road tax yield. The paper judges the success rate of the tax administrator in collecting the same amount of financial means which was ordered by the tax administrator for the particular tax period. In the next part the share of road tax collection on the whole tax collection in the Czech Republic is measured and discussed on the determined time axis.

scholarly journals Theoretical aspects of specifics of internationalization process in small andmedium-sized businesses in the Czech Republic

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Kubíčková ◽  
Aleš Peprný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Remote Areas

Internationalization can be crucial to the long-term success of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the increased globalization. The objective of this paper is determination of the specifics internationalization process of SMEs, presentation various aspects of internationalization process of SMEs and explain this issue – why do some SMEs involve in this process gradually and on the other side why do some SMEs operate in remote areas immediately after founding.

scholarly journals Incidence of Characteristic Findings during Veterinary Carcass Inspections 2010–2019 in the Czech Republic and the Relation to the Level of Health and Welfare of Individual Classes of Cattle

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Michal Kaluza ◽  
Vladimir Vecerek ◽  
Eva Voslarova ◽  
Zbynek Semerad ◽  
Annamaria Passantino
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Pathological Changes ◽  
Great Intensity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Stunted Growth ◽  
Liver And Pancreas ◽  
Systemic Disorder ◽  
The Individual

Pathological findings in individual classes of cattle were assessed from the viewpoint of their localization and category. The objective of the study was to evaluate whether there are differences in the range and number of findings made between the individual classes of cattle. The results of veterinary inspections on 2,514,666 head of cattle slaughtered in the Czech Republic in the period 2010–2019 were used for the assessment. In terms of localization, the most frequent findings in cows were in the liver and pancreas (46.13%), the urinary tract (40.76%) and the lungs (36.23%). These findings also predominated in heifers and bulls, though they were recorded at lower frequencies (p < 0.01) than in cows. The most frequent pathological changes in heifers and bulls were chronic findings in the lungs (16.09% and 12.27%, respectively). The range of findings in calves differed significantly from other classes of cattle, primarily as the result of respiratory and diarrheal syndrome being the most frequent diseases in calves. Calves were the class of cattle most frequently diagnosed with findings in the lungs (44.89%), as well as other unclassified changes (24.43%) and overall changes (21.55%), which point to a systemic disorder of the organism. The results of this study confirmed the differing states of health in the individual classes of cattle and the differing health issues to which treatment and the prevention of the most frequently occurring infectious and non-infectious diseases must be adapted. Cattle welfare is affected not only by the level of health but also by the herd management and economics. This is confirmed by the range of findings, and the deterioration of living conditions especially in cows, likely because of great intensity of farming, but also in calves which suffered from emaciation or stunted growth.

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