Hladká, AlexandraIzakovičová, ZitaPetrovič, František2025-11-262025-11-2620241802-1115https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2024-0013https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/1050In: GeoScape. Ústí nad Labem : Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, 2024. ISSN 1802-1115. Vol. 18, no. 2 (2024), pp. 173-188.This paper deals with the assessment of the demand for cultural ecosystem services (CES) using participatory mapping in the Local Action Group (LAG) Association of Municipalities of the White Carpathians and Trenčín Microregion and the Bošáčka Microregion, Slovakia. CES as non-material services provided by ecosystems are linked to tourism and its development. While, tourism is not very developed in the case study area, the preferences of residents and visitors to the area were investigated and compared. The aim of this paper is to map the demand for CES, both from the perspective of residents and visitors, and to propose appropriate forms of tourism for LAG municipalities based on the different demand for CES. We collected the data using a questionnaire survey at selected locations in the territory of the LAG from July to October in 2023, while aiming at two target groups (n=100 and n=108). Participatory mapping helped to identify CES demand locations in the country. Based on the results, we established a hierarchy of the importance of locations in terms of tourism interest. The survey shows that the demand for CES is influenced by the availability of the location as well as the availability of information about the area. In the case of attractive locations, both residents and visitors were willing to tolerate the lack of tourism services such as small number of accommodation and catering facilities, incomplete information or worse transport accessibility. Research showed that high demand for CES prevails among residents and visitors in the same locations, but residents identified more locations where demand for CES occurs. The results of the research are of considerable importance in the implementation of the concept of ecosystem services in the territory development documents, since on their basis it is possible to strengthen and especially optimise the development of tourism in the territory.enCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unportedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesschromatický indexchromatické indexychromatic indexumelá inteligenciaartificial intelligencekubické grafycubic chartsArticle