Podpora rozvoje venkovského turismu v Jihočeském kraji prostřednictvím PRV

This bachelor thesis focuses on the evaluation of the rural tourism support funded from the Rural Development Programme in period from 2007 to 2013 in the South Bohemian region. The thesis includes a theoretical anchorage of terms regarding tourism, rural tourism and its various forms based on literary search. Furthermore, it includes an overview of the financial support for this type of rural tourism funded from the European funds. The practical part of this thesis consists characteristics of the examined area, its possibilities for rural tourism development and especially the analysis of the projects supported within axis III. field of support 1.3 Encouragement of tourism activities. In the programming period from 2007 to 2013 89 projects were approved for the South Bohemian region, however, only 70 of them were traced back. This number has been analysed according to established criteria. The results of the analysis show that just 40 projects meet the concept of rural tourism