According to the results from OECD countries, the position of the tourism sector in Slovakia has been unfavourable for a long time. Tourism in Slovakia is managed in a decentralized way, which is legally and financially supported in certain forms. Support is largely conditional on cooperation. Such an example is the support of the creation and activities of regional tourism organizations. In this paper, we will examine the economic significance and justification of cooperation among entities that are members of regional tourism organizations, by determining the relationship between the number of these organizations and the amount of revenue divided into four categories at the regional level. In this work we used multiple regression and correlation analysis. Based on their results, we identified the performance of companies according to the categories of achieved revenues. The results suggest that the most productive companies are companies with revenues ranging from 100000-500000 Euros per year. The paper also offers a framework of questions for further research related to sector governance, as well as an awareness of the importance and significance of cooperation.

The presented article focuses on the characteristics, origin and development of the establishment of regions in the Czech Republic. The basis discussions concerning decentralization, self-government and regional self-government establishment in the Czech Republic and the basis characteristics of territorial self-government units will be described. The article also introduces selected political concepts from the course of the 1990s, which focused on the formation of higher territorial units. Legislative documents and issues that are in the competence of individual regional self-governments will also be discussed. An important agenda of individual regional councils is also regional policy, which will be presented and described in more detail. The aim of the article is to present the process of the establishment of regions in the Czech Republic and the competences of regions in the field of regional policy. It is a case study, which was carried out on the basis of relevant literature and data from the Czech Statistical Office. The main finding of the article is the analysis of individual processes that led to the emergence of regions in the Czech Republic on the basis of the ideas of individual political parties on the issue of regional establishment and on the establishment of regional policy.

The aim of the paper is to identify the impacts of the first wave of the pandemic Covid-19 in 2020 on the management and performance of the municipal agenda in the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. The research was conducted through the method of semi-structured interviews with ten mayors of municipalities of distinct size categories. The research questions focused on various aspects of municipal functioning (municipal management, implementation of support measures for the elderly and entrepreneurs, and communication with citizens...), on which the mayors commented based on their own experience. The results show that the municipal governments and municipal authorities in the first wave of Covid-19 played a key role in terms of providing medical supplies and support to the local population and entrepreneurs, although they faced some constraints, such as a lack of communication and information from public authorities or problematic behavior of citizens. The research also suggests that already in the first wave of the pandemic, the introduction of modern communication tools in the municipalities took place.

This paper focuses on the analysis of the local elections, emphasizing the SPD's electoral gains. Municipal politics has a significant impact on the development of municipalities and regions. The text focuses on the analysis of the electoral results of the SPD political movement in the municipal elections in the South Moravian Region in 2022. The theoretical part of the paper describes the basic mechanisms and principles of municipal elections and the political programmatic of the SPD political movement. The analytical part deals with the results of the elections in the South Moravian region, emphasizing the gains of the SPD political party, which is classified as far right. The data is based on the statistical server volby.cz, which is provided by the Czech Statistical Office. The results of the survey can be seen as a contribution to the discussion on municipal politics, municipal elections, and the strategies of individual political parties. The main finding is that the SPD political movement did not become stronger in municipal politics in the South Moravian Region.