The role of external economic factors in the implementation of the AEO programme
The role of external economic factors in the implementation of the AEO programme

Summary/Abstract: The World Customs Organization (WCO) introduced the SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade to increase security and facilitate international trade simultaneously. By raising standards and a common methodology, the Standards System would allThis paper evaluates selected tourism trends in the Moravian-Silesian Region between 2017 – 2021 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Despite the increasing number of tourists in the Moravian-Silesian Region, it was the COVID-19 pandemic that brought back the tourist numbers reported about ten years ago. Within the institutional support project Trends in Tourism in the Moravian-Silesian Region, the researchers focused between 2017 – 2019 and “Trends and innovations in tourism in the Czech Republic 2020 “on identifying trends in tourism in the MSK on both the demand and supply side. To obtain information on the attitude of customers to the studied issue, the method of written and electronic questioning, analysis, synthesis, generalisation and deduction was used. From the results of the survey and the comparison of opinions on the supply and demand side, the most important trends of tourism in the Moravian- Silesian Region were identified, with an emphasis on the use of the Internet and the popularity of discount portals, interest in extreme experiences, active and adventurous trips, discovering unique places, growing interest in gastronomic tourism and sightseeing tourism, and the growth of tourists’ demands for services (quality/price ratio). Since 2020, not only in the Moravian-Silesian Region, a pandemic of COVID-19 has manifested itself, with several restrictions that have not escaped the tourism industry.ow Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) to enter and operate more quickly in the global supply chain via cooperation with the customs authorities. Using binary logistic regression, it was found that the most significant factor for a nation to decide whether to introduce the AEO programme is the value of imports, suggesting that import security is the primary factor. Since the publication of the Standards System, the AEO programme has become the number one tool for the safe and smooth conduct of international trade. Strong corruption and high border crossing costs have a negative impact, resulting in countries needing a transparent and structured AEO programme to refrain from adopting it.

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