ASPECTS OF TOURISM PERFORMANCE IN V4 COUNTRIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC FOR FUTURE MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

Abstract

Tourism is a very dynamic industry and can change rapidly under the influence of various factors. This causes pressure for flexible solutions in terms of managing tourism at the national level and ensuring its quality, and thus its sustainable attractiveness for both domestic and foreign tourism. Tourism performance has changed significantly under the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic, and based on this, the aim of this paper was to analytically evaluate the development of tourism performance in the Visegrad Four countries. Based on the use of the approximation method and the regression method, it evaluates the performance in the period 2013-2021 (latest available data) with the TTCI and TTDI Indexes and predicts the possible performance for the next year 2023 under the influence of the aforementioned pandemic. The results of the study point to different performance within the four countries. The country with the most stable tourism management potential and potentially the best performance appears to be the Czech Republic, and the worst performing is the Slovak Republic.

Keywords

• tourism
• tourism management
• v4 countries
• tourism performance