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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-025-2-0103

EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS OF SELECTED MUNICIPALITIES IN SLOVAKIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

Regina Mišovičová1, Zuzana Pucherová1, Adam Čaplák1
1 Department of Ecology and Environmentalistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia


The strategic document Economic and Social Development Program (ESDP) has become an integral part of municipalities at present, serving as a basic tool for planning and implementing activities contributing to improving the quality of life and sustainable development. According to the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 539/2008 Coll. on the Support of Regional Development, the existence of a ESDP is a condition for obtaining resources from the state budget and additional resources for municipal development projects. This is also the basic motivation for municipalities to prepare this kind of document. For this reason, we focused on evaluating development programs in 3 selected municipalities – Podhájska, Ždiar and Liptovský Ján, oriented to tourism activities. We evaluated their strategic documents from the perspective of sustainable development and planned activities aimed at the development of sustainable forms of tourism. We used a modified STEEPLED analysis, in which we selected the following factors: socio-cultural (S) – population growth and demography; technological (T) – research and development; economic (E) – living standards, inflation, purchasing power of the population; environmental (E) – the state of environmental components; political (P) – political and legislative environment. The STEEP analysis allows us to compare the development plans of selected municipalities by assessing external factors that influence them, but in a poorly controlled manner.
 

Keywords: strategic document, development, STEEP analysis, sustainability, tourism

pages: 103-108, Published: 2025, online: 2025



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