Support for Toursim Activities in the Czech Republic by the Cohesion Policy (2007-2013)

Abstract

In Europe, the tourism plays a vital role in the development of many European regions, especially those regions which are marked by no significant concentration of industry and commerce. As such this sector of the national economy was target of European support from the Cohesion policy funds in the 2007 — 2013 period. The funds very especially abundant in the Czech Republic where the distribution was, however, dispersed among a number of operational programmes within the Cohesion policy framework. This paper aims to analyse the support for tourism in the Czech Republic on the administrative level of municipalities and focus on targeting of lagging regions of the Czech Republic.