<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Gambling is a specific type of economic activity that significantly affects many aspects of society. It is associated mainly with negative impacts on the lives of individuals and their families, but it also has a positive economic impact on the public budgets of states, regions and municipalities. In this article, we focus on a geographic assessment of the development of gambling in the Czech Republic, which is based on a spatial analysis of data on licensed games and data on the revenues of municipalities arising from gambling. It turns out that the occurrence of gambling is strongly influenced by binary centre/periphery dichotomy, with the exception of the Czech-Austrian and Czech-German border areas which are characterised by a high concentration of casinos resulting from more rigid regulation of gambling on the other side of the border. In this research, the authors develop an innovative scientific discipline within Czech human geography: The geography of gambling.</p></abstract>

Gambling is a specific type of economic activity that significantly affects many aspects of society. It is associated mainly with negative impacts on the lives of individuals and their families, but it also has a positive economic impact on the public budgets of states, regions and municipalities. In this article, we focus on a geographic assessment of the development of gambling in the Czech Republic, which is based on a spatial analysis of data on licensed games and data on the revenues of municipalities arising from gambling. It turns out that the occurrence of gambling is strongly influenced by binary centre/periphery dichotomy, with the exception of the Czech-Austrian and Czech-German border areas which are characterised by a high concentration of casinos resulting from more rigid regulation of gambling on the other side of the border. In this research, the authors develop an innovative scientific discipline within Czech human geography: The geography of gambling.

The spatial distribution of gambling and its economic benefits to municipalities in the Czech Republic

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Gambling is a specific type of economic activity that significantly affects many aspects of society. It is associated mainly with negative impacts on the lives...

The spatial distribution of gambling and its economic benefits to municipalities in the Czech Republic

Published Online: Jul 08, 2017

Page range: 104 - 117

Received: Aug 01, 2016

Accepted: May 12, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2017-0010

Keywords
gambling, regulation, municipalities, spatial patterns, economic benefits, Czech Republic

© 2017 David Fiedor et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The spatial distribution of gambling and its economic benefits to municipalities in the Czech Republic

Published Online: Jul 08, 2017

Page range: 104 - 117

Received: Aug 01, 2016

Accepted: May 12, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2017-0010

Keywordsgambling, regulation, municipalities, spatial patterns, economic benefits, Czech Republic

© 2017 David Fiedor et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
gambling, regulation, municipalities, spatial patterns, economic benefits, Czech Republic