Vývoj cestovního ruchu v Krkonoších po roce 1945

This thesis focuses on the development of tourism in the Giant Mountains after 1945, due to the breadth of the topic, the attention is focused on bed capacity and number of visitors. The aim of this thesis is to find out how the number of visitors, the structure of visitors and the trends in the development of the bed capacity of accommodation facilities in the Czech part of the Giant Mountains had changed during the reference period, this research is limited to 1989. The thesis is based mainly on archival sources and literature published in second half of 20th century and analyses what type of visitors came to the Giant Mountains, how the daily and annual number of visitors of the mountains changed, what the total bed capacity was and what percentage of it was occupied by different forms of tourism. In the thesis is also included an outline of the development of number of visitors, the structure of visitors and trends in the development of bed capacity in Špindlerův Mlýn, which was one of the most visited areas of the Giant Mountaions during the reference period.