Affiliation:
1. University of Prešov, Faculty of Management and Business, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Prešov, Slovakia
Abstract
The submitted contribution deals with the current status and view of the
recreational vouchers as a tourism support tool from the point of view of
employees who are entitled to use this option. The aim of the study was to
find out, describe, and evaluate the perception of recreational vouchers as
a tool of sustainable domestic tourism by employees who used this option and
compare them with the perception of those who have not done it yet. Overall,
188 respondents took part in the questionnaire research held in person and
online, in the period from December 2022 to February 2023. The methodology
of the research to verify the perception of respondents included the use of
Shapiro-Wilk normality test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and
Spearman correlation coefficient, which were evaluated in Software Gretl.
The results of the research brought a positive opinion even from the public
who did not have the opportunity to use them, but the statistical
verification of the hypotheses did not show a different perception of the
voucher among the respondents and their selected characteristics (age and
place of residence). On the other hand, a positive opinion about the
recreational voucher is confirmed, from which it can be concluded that the
voucher can be perceived as an important and necessary tool oriented toward
the development of sustainable domestic tourism in Slovakia.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Geology,Geography, Planning and Development,Earth-Surface Processes,Demography,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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