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Camino de Santiago: pilgrimage as the phenomenom of regional development
Vaverková, Inka ; Havlíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Frajer, Václav (referee)
The Way to Saint James is presented from two points of view. First, its character and its position in the pilgrimage - tourism continuum are subjects of the research. The position's analysis is based on dataset created by the Office for pilgrims in Santiago de Compostela about the pilgrims' motivation. The pilgrimage's position in the pilgrimage - tourism continuum has been getting closer to the limit between the spiritual and the profane during last years but it has not been reached yet. Then, the influence of the pilgrimage in a regional development is analyzed. The existence of the diffusion effect is examined in a study of model localities. The towns of Palas de Rei and Taboada, both in the Lugo region, have been chosen to examine the existence of this influence. The towns of Puente la Reina/Gares in the Navarra region, Nájera in the La Rioja region, Sahagún in the León region and Palas de Rein in the Lugo region have been chosen to examine the diffusion effect. The existence of the regional development is confirmed by increasing number of hotels and restaurants but not in the socioeconomic development. The diffusion effect is not confirmed. KEY WORDS: geography of religion, religious tourism, Spain, Way to Saint James (Camino de Santiago), pilgrimage - tourism continuum, diffusion efect
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Geographical Aspects of the Development and Distribution of Collective Sports: Change of Pattern
Holenda, Antonín ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Novotný, Josef (referee)
5 Abstract The thesis aims to geographical aspects of development and distribution of selected collective sports. For further analysis we selected football, basketball and tennis. The thesis is divided to two separate parts: theoretical and practical. The sport geography and the theoretical attitude, from which results the sport geography, are introduced at the beginning of the text. Another topic is an introduction of several opinions on sports spreading and their establishment in the society. Because the main aim of the thesis is to overcome simplified viewpoint of sport as the globalization tool, we also pay attention to sport globalization. In the following practical part we consecutively introduce five historical periods and depict the process of diffusion and changes in distribution of sport clubs and tennis tournaments in selected European countries. In the following analytical section we investigate the contemporary formula for geographical distribution of selected sports using the elementary statistical analysis of data acquiring and quadrant charts. The main aim of the practical part is approving the variability of spreading for different sports in different countries and confirming the importance of historical consequences regardless of contemporary globalization tendencies. The results bring us...
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Multimedia presentation of geography research {--} Urban geography of České Budějovice and the agglomeration of České Budějovice
HRDLIČKOVÁ, Alena
This diploma thesis describes possibilities and forms of multimedia presentation for education at the University or presentations at scientific conferences, using the example of research in the field of urban geography of České Budějovice and the agglomeration of České Budějovice. In the first part we focus on programs and program systems, which are used to create presentations. To these programs belongs for example PowerPoint and also technical equipment, which allows us to show complete presentations (projectors, dataprojectors, slide projectors, document cameras). In the second part of this work we gather and sort materials of urban geography research of České Budějovice and the agglomeration of České Budějovice to make a multimedia presentation. In the third part of this work we add a 262-slide presentation of this research, primarily intended for students of geography. In this work, the urban geography research of České Budějovice and the agglomeration of České Budějovice deals with the historical evolution of the city, the location of the city, the spatial structure of the city (genetic and concentric, functional, urban-morphological, social and demographic) and the agglomeration (also suburbanization), the infrastructure of this city and its agglomeration (traffic, technical and biotic) and in the end with selected aesthetic and compositional characteristics of the surroundings of České Budějovice.
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A travel book as a practical tool for teaching regional Geography in secondary school (for example teaching of South-western Asia)
NEDOROSTOVÁ, Alena
The diploma thesis is called ?A travel book as a practical tool for teaching regional Geography in secondary school (for example teaching of South-western Asia).? It consists of two parts. The first part is focused on the analysis of literature and the materials that refer to the topic of my diploma thesis (textbooks of Geography, travelogue and popularly educational literature). The next theme of this thesis is a travel book as a term, and possibilities of the usage of literature connected with travelling as a tool of teaching practice in secondary school. The main part of the thesis applies to the process of teaching text as a teaching guide that uses elements of a travel book for teaching regional geography of states in South-western Asia in secondary school. The teaching text is divided into two parts ? travel and teaching that introduces basic geographic signs of the whole region of South-western Asia. Each chapter is finished with summary, questions and tasks. The readers are progressively taken to Iran as a chosen representative of the region in each part of travel story.
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European Integration - Czech Society and Landscape
Balej, M. ; Jančák, V. ; Jeřábek, Milan ; Oršulák, T.
Top meeting of Czech geographers provided a space for exchange of a knowledge and informations from physical geography and geoecology, social geography and regional development, regional geography, educational geography and cartography and geoinformatics. The CD-ROM includes both each of taken articles, and two mono - thematic numbers of journal Geography, and supporting congress activities.
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Czech Geography nad Bulgaria
Martínek, Jiří
Review article, informing about the relations between the Czech and Bulgarian geography during the last about 100 years, highlighting the works of some prominent personalities.
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Evaluation of availability and efficiency of statistical data for research on agricultural geography
Martinát, Stanislav
Paper is dealing with problem of statistical data availability and efficiency for research carried out in agricultural geography. Aim of the paper is to evaluate contemporary state of availability and efficiency of so-called hard data, that are gathered by both govermental (administration) and non-governmental (NGOs) authorities. The most problematic issue availability of data is, respectively its nonavailability on the level of spatial units other than large (regions, districts). Next problem we see in using of different systems of gathering data by various authorities. Problem is also complicated efficiency for time comparisons because of changes in methodologies used in agricultural censuses.
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Travel literature in the teaching of regional geography of America
JELÍNEK, Ondřej
This Diploma thesis consists of two basic parts. In the first section includes research on specialist geographical literature, nonfiction literature, travel and didactic literature and geography textbooks for the upper primary school. The second section of the thesis comprises of my own teaching manual which focuses on the regional geography of North America, specifically the United States of America. Based on his own traveling experience the author presents the pupils the geographic curriculum of the upper primary school through the medium of a travel story. The teaching manual was created in Microsoft Publisher 2010. The travel book is complemented by extended definitions of terms, tables, colour schemes and a number of personal photographs which were taken during journeys around the USA.
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