Performance and perspective of family businesses within the tourism sector in Slovakia

Abstract

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have an important place within economics of all countries. They signifi-cantly participate in the creation of the added value and at the same time, they generate a great deal of the job vacan-cies. Family businesses (FB) represent a significant part of the Slovak SME. The article analyzes the representation of these specific business subjects within the frame of the SME in Slovakia and their activity in sector structure of the Slovak economy, especially their presence within the tertiary service sector with the emphasis on their activity within the tourism field. The realized research confirmed the important prevalence of the representation of given businesses within the tourism, specifically within the sector of accommodation and catering. For their existence, family businesses should in future increase the perspective of the yet-weak economic meaning of the tourism sector within the Slovak economy.