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Tourism is in a close connection with the transport operations and as such develop thanks to various forms of transport. A large role in the effects on the growth potential of international tourism play the individual countries, whose task is to promote the development of air transport, and hence boosting the national economy and many of its areas. The article presents the evaluation of the air transport infrastructure in Slovakia, which is a prerequisite for the development of tourism. It contains theoretical backroad of air transport service and analyses of the role of Slovak airports in tourism development. The article deals with the assumption that the transport accessibility of a country with a regular air service is the basis for international transport. The aim of the article is to evaluate the role of Slovak airports in terms of passenger transport and tourism development. Its emphasizes the development of air transport in Slovakia, analyses airports performances and investments in the air transport infrastructure. Secondary sources were used and processed by selected mathematical and statistical methods of descriptive statistics.

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Destination managers need indicators for monitoring, comparing and decision-making purposes about sustainable tourism development. There have been several initiatives to set the sustainable tourism indicators, however, the indicators are either too complex, data collection is difficult, or the analysis requires expert statistical knowledge. Therefore, this article aims to propose a user-friendly method that allows destination managers and decision makers to process tourism data and integrate them into one composite indicator. To help destination managers in their work, this paper reviews the most used methods to create composite indicators, and with the help of the Delphi method among experienced tourism leaders, it proposes a tool that allows destination managers to compare sustainable tourism development of destinations. The results present the application of simple composite sustainable tourism indicator on the example of eight destinations in Slovakia. The paper provides useful guidance in data collection, analysis and decision-making concerning sustainable tourism development.

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