The Current Situation of Tourism in the Countries of the Visegrad Four and their Connection to Sustainability Expressed by Selected Indexes

Stanislav RUDÝ – Ľubomíra KUBÍKOVÁ 

https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2023.9788022551274.310-319

 

Abstract. Through tourism, countries can make their cultural heritage available to the whole world. It offers job opportunities and brings money to the regions but can also damage culture, monuments, and the environment. The object of the tourism industry is to strive for the sustainable competitiveness of the tourism industry in addition to making a profit. Economic, social, cultural, and environmental development must reconcile economic growth with sustainable development. The structure of the paper consists of an introduction, a methodology containing the work process, which was presented, the theoretical starting points of tourism and the results of the work, where our main objective was to identify the current situation of tourism in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic and identify the environmental and economic performance of four countries in connection with the eco-innovation index, the environmental performance index, and an overall score according to sustainable development goals.

Keywords: Tourism, Tourism Sustainability, V4 Countries

JEL classification: O10, L80, L83

Fulltext: PDF

Online publication date: 25 January 2024

ISBN: 978-80-225-5127-4

Publisher: University of Economics in Bratislava

Pages: 310-319

 

To cite this proceedings paper (STN ISO 690 and 690-2): 

RUDÝ, S., KUBÍKOVÁ, Ľ. 2024. The Current Situation of tTurism in the Countries of the Visegrad Four and their Connection to Sustainability Expressed by Selected Indexes. In PETROVSKÁ, F. (ed.). EDAMBA 2023: Conference Proceedings. Bratislava: University of Economics in Bratislava, 2024. ISBN 978-80-225-5127-4, pp. 310-319.

https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2023.9788022551274.310-319