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Title: POTENTIALS IN MAKING USE OF THE MINING HERITAGE ASSETS IN THE SPIS REGION TO DEVELOP MINING TOURISM IN SLOVAKIA

POTENTIALS IN MAKING USE OF THE MINING HERITAGE ASSETS IN THE SPIS REGION TO DEVELOP MINING TOURISM IN SLOVAKIA
L. Mixtaj;G. Weiss;R. Weiss;S. Labant;J. Zuzik
1314-2704
English
19
5.1
The contribution focused on the investigation of the potential in making use of the mining assets that in the past have been employed in extraction and processing mineral wealth of the Spis region. One of the possibilities is in employing them as part of mining tourism, a less traditional form of experience-based tourism. The region abounds in a great number of unique old-time mining works offering a high potential for preserving objects of underground mining, establishing open-air museums, educational paths as part of the Spis Geopark currently in stage of preparation. Support to mining tourism in the region featuring specific geographical and socio-demographical conditions may be turned into the main factor of its sustainable development. The authors are involved in defining the region?s potential for mining tourism while taking into account the wide variety of factors of development in the area, the status quo of local marketing management in tourism, historical context, etc. The final part is a solution suggesting how to make best use of the available products of tourism on offer with the aim to ensure systematic development of mining tourism in the area. All that by way of implementing the principles of marketing and management-based approach when setting up a local mining-destination.
conference
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019, 30 June - 6 July, 2019
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
Bulgarian Acad Sci; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Slovak Acad Sci; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; World Acad Sci; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Ac
551-558
30 June - 6 July, 2019
website
cdrom
6019
region Spis; geotourism; mining heritage; mining tourism