Rural Development in Sparsely Populated Areas. Vranov Na Dyjí Micro-Region in Moravia

Abstract

The article analyses the possibilities of development of one of the most peripheral micro-regions of Moravia on the basis of the theory of sustainability. It notes its above-average focus on agriculture and tourism, which is linked to seasonality, lower education of the population, depopulation and higher unemployment. The settlement structure with predominantly very small villages conditions a worse infrastructure, which is partially balanced by a high-quality natural environment. Possible solutions are seen in the focus on qualitative development and support of social capital. The transition to post-productive development and counter-urbanization gives to regions of this type new opportunities associated with the development of housing and tourism.

Bohemian Switzerland: Long-Term Spatiotemporal Transformations of Tourism Facilities in Rural Peripheries Between the Regulations and Access for All

“…Most of the research focused on balancing the countryside tourism, local development and conservation efforts has been conducted in countries with long histories of tourism, however. To the contrary, the research in the Central-European countries (CECs) has provided overviews of changes in tourism sector in the post-socialist period (Horáková 2010;Banaszkiewicz et al 2017), while specific studies have been mostly exploring the issues of so-called second housing (e.g., Vágner and Fialová 2011) and only recently focused on selected countryside tourism regions in an evolutionary perspective (e.g., Šťastná and Vaishar 2020;Vaishar and Šťastná 2021). Works devoted to the relations between environmental conservation and local development are rather fragmentary and found a limited reflection to date (Kučera et al 2008;Dolejš et al 2019).…”