<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Shopping and services related travel represent significant aspects of the service functions of settlements and belong to basic region-forming processes. They are relatively irregular movements, and the analyses of these processes are based on data which are not available from official sources. This article presents some results from a survey on the attraction of retail and services provision, as exemplified by service processes in the hinterland of Brno City. The results from our survey contain both a time dimension in a single-model space (in terms of a comparison between current results and those from the socialist era at the end of the 1970s), and the possibility to compare various methodologies using responses from municipalities and those from local residents. Hence, this article presents an outline of selected changes in the shopping resources and shopping and services related travel in the Brno hinterland, over a period of about three decades, with some interesting methodological aspects.</p></abstract>

Shopping and services related travel represent significant aspects of the service functions of settlements and belong to basic region-forming processes. They are relatively irregular movements, and the analyses of these processes are based on data which are not available from official sources. This article presents some results from a survey on the attraction of retail and services provision, as exemplified by service processes in the hinterland of Brno City. The results from our survey contain both a time dimension in a single-model space (in terms of a comparison between current results and those from the socialist era at the end of the 1970s), and the possibility to compare various methodologies using responses from municipalities and those from local residents. Hence, this article presents an outline of selected changes in the shopping resources and shopping and services related travel in the Brno hinterland, over a period of about three decades, with some interesting methodological aspects.

Shopping and Services Related Travel in the Hinterland of Brno: Changes From the Socialist Period to the Present / Spádovost Za Obchodem A Službami V Zázemí Brna: Srovnání Období Socialismu A Současnosti

Department of Regional Economics and Administration Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Lipová 507/41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Shopping and services related travel represent significant aspects of the service functions of settlements and belong to basic region-forming processes. They...

Shopping and Services Related Travel in the Hinterland of Brno: Changes From the Socialist Period to the Present / Spádovost Za Obchodem A Službami V Zázemí Brna: Srovnání Období Socialismu A Současnosti

Published Online: Dec 11, 2014

Page range: 18 - 28

Received: Feb 14, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2014-0015

Keywords
retail and services gravity, service processes, questionnaire survey, Brno hinterland, Czech Republic

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Shopping and Services Related Travel in the Hinterland of Brno: Changes From the Socialist Period to the Present / Spádovost Za Obchodem A Službami V Zázemí Brna: Srovnání Období Socialismu A Současnosti

Published Online: Dec 11, 2014

Page range: 18 - 28

Received: Feb 14, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2014-0015

Keywordsretail and services gravity, service processes, questionnaire survey, Brno hinterland, Czech Republic

© 2014

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

Keywords
retail and services gravity, service processes, questionnaire survey, Brno hinterland, Czech Republic