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.

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赌博的空间分布及其对捷克共和国市政当局的经济利益

摘要赌博是一种特定类型的经济活动，对社会的许多方面产生重大影响。它主要与对个人及其家庭生活的负面影响有关，但对各州，地区和市政当局的公共预算也有积极的经济影响。在本文中，我们将重点放在捷克共和国赌博发展的地理评估上，该评估基于对许可游戏数据和赌博所产生的市政收入数据的空间分析。事实证明，赌博的发生受到二元中心/外围二分法的强烈影响，除了捷克-奥地利和捷克-德国边境地区以外，由于对边境另一侧的赌博行为进行了更为严格的规定，赌场的高度集中是其特点。在这项研究中，作者在捷克人文地理学领域内开发了一种创新的科学学科：赌博地理学。