Přístupy místních akčních skupin v České republice k rozvoji venkovského turismu

The diploma thesis deals with the evaluation of the rural tourism development through LEADER methods, especially by the local action groups. The rate of support was analyzed in the territory of 18 selected local action groups according to their tourist attendance. The theoretical part includes literary research, which explains the relevant concepts of rural development and development of the area through tourism, namely rural tourism, the possibilities of supporting the development of rural and rural tourism through subsidy programs, especially the Rural Development Program, Functioning of LEADER methods and local action groups, which are the crucial topic of the presented work. The following chapter introduces selected local action groups based on their tourist attractiveness and the inclusion of tourism support in the strategic plan of the each LAG. The major eighth chapter discusses in the detail projects supported by the LAG, which are further classified according to their nature and sorted according to whether they have the ideologies of rural tourism or not. The aim of the thesis is to find out which categories of LAG, according to the tourist ballast, most strongly implement projects supporting the development of rural tourism in the region. The final chapter deals with the evaluation of the support of implemented projects supporting the rural tourism in the current programming period 2014-2020