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Geography of Tourism of Slovakia

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Tourist aspect of geography first appeared in Slovakian research in 1960s. The most significant is the Geography of Tourism monograph from 1983 by Mariot. Since then, different approaches, such as regional or material and technical preconditions, appeared. This century in the literature focuses on the models of products in tourism industry. An important part of the chapter is the presentation of natural preconditions of tourism development starting from the landscape through the natural parks to the point values. Values gathered from thematic routes, urban preserves or folk architecture reserves are examples of cultural and historical preconditions of tourism development. There are also mentioned the most important cultural events as well as values combining both types: the cultural and natural sites inscribed in the UNESCO list of the world heritage. The part dedicated to the tourist infrastructure presents the contemporary state of the accommodation facilities such as its capacity, category and other statistic data. Sports and recreation infrastructure, as an important issue for tourism development in a country, is described briefly. Macroeconomic statistics of tourism in Slovakia serve as a kind of summary of the infrastructure presentation. The last part is dedicated to the main types of tourism such as urban or rural tourism, alpine and classical skiing, spa and wellness tourism, or even not expected in this region of Europe—wine tourism.

The original version of this chapter was revised: The author’s name has been removed, the author’s affiliation has been changed, and the belated corrections have been carried out. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_14

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_14

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Čuka, P. (2017). Geography of Tourism of Slovakia. In: Widawski, K., Wyrzykowski, J. (eds) The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern European Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_11

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