Comparison of development and localizing conditions of tourism in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic after the split of the Czechoslovak in 1993. Author has done analysis of development and comparison of tourism in Czech and Slovak Republic. In the first part of the article the author concentrates on the historical aside. Among other things, we can conclude that Czechoslovakia has been among the most developed European countries. In the second (economic) part it compares arrivals, departures, receipts, expenditures and contributions of tourism to GDP and export. In the third part, are presented by the localizing conditions of Czech and Slovak Republic. Includes a brief comparison of the assumptions of tourism in the Presov Region and one Region in the Czech Republic (according to the author, the best seems Zlin Region - in terms of tourism potential, hospitable locals and economic success). Part of the article is a brief assessment of the development of tourism in a time of global crisis in the countries surveyed.
