Vývoj devizových příjmů z cestovního ruchu České republiky v letech 2004-2012

Abstract

The Travel and Tourism industry plays an important role in the national economy, namely incoming tourism which brings to the country foreign currency incomes from making use of goods and services. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development of foreign currency incomes from incoming tourism to the Czech Republic according to the territorial aspect in the years, resp. quarters of 2004-2012 and to find correlations between foreign currency incomes and number of tourists (nights) in the accommodation establishments. The territorial aspect is obligatory for the Czech National Bank after the Czech Republic joint the European Union in the 2004. The analysis involves the European countries whose foreign currency incomes exceed the limit of 2 billion CZK in 2011; USA as the most important source country from the continent America; Japan as the most importan source country from the continent Asia; Brasil and China as countries of the group BRIC.