Recently, more attention has been paid to the issues of corpus design and representativeness. These issues are especially important for general-purpose language corpora such as the spoken corpora developed within the framework of the Czech National Corpus. This text is a response to Jan Chromý’s paper “Comparison of spoken corpora from a sociolinguistic perspective” (Slovo a slovesnost 78, 2017: 145-158), in which the author compares the general-purpose spoken corpus ORAL2013 with his own dataset collected for the SAUP project. We argue that some of his claims are not justified by the findings presented in the paper and that his understanding of the concept of representativeness is rather misleading. Therefore, we aim to clarify some fundamental design decisions adopted for the compilation of ORAL2013 by responding to the specific objections raised by Chromý. We also point out some methodological and reasoning inconsistencies in his paper.
Sustainable tourism development concept defined by World Tourism Organization reveals a need for common network formation as a platform for cooperation between different tourism sectors and stakeholders. Additional reason for the growing interest in cooperation in tourism is the belief that organisations and destinations may be able to gain competitive advantage by bringing together and sharing their combined knowledge, expertise, financial capital and other resources for common goal. Cooperation networks can gain collaborative advantage not only for separate organisation, but the whole destination. Topicality of the problem is based on the global competition, heterogeneous nature of tourism industry, rapidly developing technological innovation, need for sustainable development set additional importance for cooperation in order to keep pace with the latest developments and new possibilities for cooperation networks. The aim of paper will discuss tourism industry sectorial and regional coverage of tourism associations and other formal networks in Latvia from the perspective of sustainable tourism destination development. Conclusions and suggestions are drawn for overall tourism industry as system development, cooperation network gap reduction by sectors as well as by regions and tourism organisation cooperation improvement in Latvia.
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