The paper provides an insight into factors influencing developments in gastronomy and catering services. The aim of the text is to identify the key elements affecting contemporary catering services including attendance at catering establishments, preferences in food selection, use of lunch menus, and adherence to hygiene standards in operational practice in food production. The first part of the survey shows the issue of restaurant attendance during the working week. The second part examines the frequency of restaurant visitors, restaurant attendance at weekends and also the factors that influence the choice of food. The representative sample consists of the Czech National Panel, with respondents above 15 years of age. The data were obtained from 504 respondents (N 504). The third part of the investigation meets the most important criteria that affect the quality of serviceshygiene standards in gastronomy focused on compliance with hygiene standards from the perspective of hygiene control authorities. Factors for deciding the choice of food in restaurants and the frequency of restaurant visits were also examined.

Tour operators play a central role in the tourism industry. For tourism distribution channels, the emergence of new ones has been of particular significance, since it leads to priorities change in terms of distribution. The purpose of the current study was to examine the Slovak incoming tour operators in relation to tourism distribution in a highly competitive environment. The findings show that the Slovak incoming tour operators as a mediator of accommodation services are not the first choice of a foreign customer when it comes to accommodation provision. This is the consequence of the fact that tour operators are not able to compete in an adequate way with electronics distribution channels (e.g. Booking, Trivago, Go global and others). The research results show that the Slovak incoming tour operators are not able to develop their activities concerning booking offer. If they want to survive, they will have to change their traditional business model and structure their product portfolio and focus on offer of new different services and dynamic products.

Tradition of beer industry in Slovakia takes origin in 19 th century, when production of beer primarily appeared in this country. Slovaks love beer, which is confirmed by gradually increasing number of beer producing facilities. Production of beer has significant impact on development of Slovak economy, direct foreign investments, creation of new jobs, technology modernization etc. There are also many significant multinational corporations operating in Slovakia such as Heineken International, Topvar, Steiner and others. Significant revolution is going on also in the sector of small independent craft breweries in Slovakia. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance and impact of beer industry on Slovakian economy and to analyze advantages and disadvantages of the sector in this area.

This study is focused on changes in the accommodation services market affected by shared accommodation platforms. The housing services market in the Czech Republic is segmented complexly. Traditional types of accommodation including hotels, pensions and hostels are using digital platforms such as Trivago, Booking, TripAdvisor, etc. only to mediate offered short-term housing services. The offer of so-called shared accommodation has expanded considerably. One of the most widespread is a digital platform Airbnb acting as an accommodation service provider mediating private immovable properties as well as collective accommodation facilities.