ABSTRACT
Paper’s aim is to demonstrate the power of high quality open structured data within spatial econometrics and as an essential input for building up cross-sectoral business intelligence systems’ databases’ fundamental content on industries’ stakeholders at the lowest administrative level. The aim is explained on the practical example of linking an open structured SQL database containing all Slovak entrepreneurs’ financial statements with the Eurostat methodology schema’s on tourism industries stakeholders’ categorization and with the Slovak Republic’s Registry of destination management organizations established under the Act no. 91/2010 about the support of tourism (hereinafter R_DMO). For the purposes of linking, the schema and the R_DMO were transformed into single tables with joinable integers. Relevant queried data from the upper mentioned database operated by the “ekosys- tem.slovensko.digital” were geocoded using an external application running on Google Maps Geocoding API. All of the resulting data were uploaded and tested within the environment of a currently developing Destination Business Intelligence System using among other open geospatial technologies. Ultimately, the results quantify, visualize and discuss the current involvement of tourism industries stakeholders in Kosice region’s (Slovak Republic) destination management organizations. Further on, the paper discusses future necessary steps that could bring more flexible solutions for both public and private stakeholders in terms of taking advantage of aggregated public data for data-driven decision making and gaining competitiveness advantage from spatial econometrics.
