Abstract
Zoological gardens represent a very important part of tourism. The main aim of this contribution is to find out which factors have significant impact on number of visits in zoos in the Czech Republic.
The scripting language R was used for statistical evaluation. After statistical evaluation using the Spearman correlation coefficient, it was found that the factors related to the number of zoo visits are the level of own income adjusted for admission, which was evaluated for a very strong correlation rate, i.e.
Spearman correlation coefficient 0.92 and p-value (after Holm correction) 7.10-9, and the amount of adult admission with a slightly lower correlation rate, i.e. 0.69 and p-value 0.03. Other analysed factors, i.e. the size of the exposition part of the zoo (Spearman 0.58, p-value 0.11), the total number of species kept in the zoo (Spearman 0.44, p-value 0.31), the amount of public subsidies provided to the zoo (Spearman 0.54, p-value 0.16), the number of inhabitants in the region (Spearman -0.19, p-value 0.8) and the number of tourists in the region (Spearman 0.23, p-value 0.8) in which the zoo is located have no significant impact on attendance.