TURISTICKÁ ATRAKTIVITA MĚST ČR VE SVĚTLE NÁVŠTĚVNOSTI ZAHRANIČNÍCH TURISTŮ 2018 A 2020
TOURIST ATTRACTIVENESS OF CITIES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF FOREIGN TOURISM FROM 2018 TO 2020

Author(s): Jiří Vystoupil, Martin Šauer, HELENA KUBÍČKOVÁ
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Rural and urban sociology, Present Times (2010 - today), Tourism, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: urban tourism; tourist attractiveness of cities; intensity of foreign tourism; cities of the Czech Republic; pandemic COVID-19;
Summary/Abstract: The goal of this article is to analyse and compare the tourist attractiveness of the cities in the Czech Republic from the foreign tourist point of view before the COVID-19 pandemic (in 2018) and during its peak (in 2020). To assess the tourist attractiveness of cities, two indicators were utilized in the study - the indicator of the intensity of foreign tourism (the ratio of overnight stays to the number of inhabitants) and the share of overnight stays of foreign tourists. The study embodies 191 cities with more than 5,000 inhabitants. Firstly, the results confirmed the patent dominance of Prague (69% of all overnight stays in 2018, the intensity 12.3), and the overall dominant position of 42 cities with urban conservation zone (92% share of overnight stays, the intensity 7.6) and above all of the spa towns (14.7% share of overnight stays, the intensity almost 14). Secondly, the results confirmed the expected consequences of the pandemic on the most tourist-attractive cities in 2020. The share of overnight stays fell to 24% compared to 2018. Likewise, the indicator of the intensity of foreign tourism fell from 4,0 to 1,0 with a milder impact on the most important spa towns (the share of overnight stays of foreign tourists slumped to 30.3%, the intensity dropped from 13.9 to 4.2).

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