Spa industry is presently an inherent part of Slovak tourism. For this reason, it has become a major interest of scientific and professional literature (economics, management, sociology, or geography). The main topic of this paper is the evaluation of tourism in Slovakia through a geographic analysis. This paper briefly evaluates the development and the importance of spa, spa tourism and wellness and their main research areas and issues. Furthermore, the primary sources of tourism development, the overview of spa tourism and the wellness resorts, the accommodation establishments and the visitation rate are evaluated as well. In conclusion, functional and spatial typification of spa tourism and wellness in Slovakia is presented. The structure of the paper is designed to be appropriate for a comparison with V4 countries.
Congress tourism and fair tourism are two of the most profiting types of tourism from the perspective of economic benefits. According to the research in the field of tourism, they are part of meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) tourism. Developed countries with developed tourism focus on the importance of MICE. They also compete with one another. From the perspective of congress tourism, Slovakia is an attractive country due to its location in Central Europe, membership to the EU and Schengen, good transportation accessibility and political stability. This paper evaluates the development and importance of congress tourism and fair tourism as well as briefly evaluates the history of the development and potential of Slovakia, and characterises the accommodation infrastructure of these types of tourism in Slovakia. The conclusion summarises the most important findings of the analysis of congress centres as well as the findings of the identification of the main resorts of fair tourism in Slovakia.
This study is about the specific problem of extremist, radical and nationalistic political parties in Slovakia. The basis of this study consists of statistical analyses of electoral preference of political parties, which were picked according to their political programs, political goals and statements and actions of important political leaders. It takes a closer look on the development of political atmosphere and the results on different stages of elections.Keywords: extremism, radicalism, nationalisms, electoral geography, Slovakia ÚvodMinimálne od počiatku nového milénia je značná časť európskych krajín konfrontovaná so skutočnosťou zjavného zviditeľňovania sa politického radikalizmu a extrémizmu. Táto vlna zasiahla východnú časť Európy vo vlne často až vybičovaného nacionalizmu už krátko, alebo niekde dokonca ihneď po páde komunistických systémov a extrémne vyvrcholila až v občianskych či etnických vojnách na územiach bývalej Juhoslávie, či Sovietskeho zväzu. No táto vlna nacionalizmu ústiaceho najmä v prípade národnostných menšín, či viacnárodných štátov často do separatizmu či autonomizmu, postupom času opadla. Pozornosť verejnosti čoraz viac pútali najmä ekonomické problémy a ťaživé dopady realizovania, alebo aj naopak nerealizovania ekonomických reforiem. V úvodnej vete spomenuté zviditeľňovanie sa politického radikalizmu a extrémizmu však súvisí s novšími fenoménmi, než je "klasický" nacionalizmus pochádzajúci z 19. storočia, ktorý je vnímaný ako snaha o vlastné vymedzenie sa daného národného spoločenstva tak v rovine kultúrnej, ako aj politickej. Nástup novodobého pravicového radikalizmu a extrémizmu v krajinách západnej Európy začal už koncom 80-tych rokov vo Francúzsku a postupne v priebehu 90-tych rokov výrazne silnel v Rakúsku, Taliansku, Španielsku i Írsku. Od prelomu milénií získal neprehliadnuteľné pozície v Belgicku, Holandsku, pomerne pevne zakorenil najmä vo východnom Nemecku a napokon i v krízou sužovanom Grécku. Spoločným menovateľom bol rastúci odpor voči čoraz silnejšiemu prúdu imigrácie z kultúrne čoraz viac odlišnejších krajín (afrických, všeobecne moslimských, pôvodne i východoeurópskych a pod.). Pomerne dlhé, niekde až vyše tridsaťročné obdobie hospodárskeho rastu prerušené iba ropnou krízou striedali čoraz častejšie sa vracajúce ekonomické problémy a práve táto situácia bola vnímaná ako živná Geografické informácie 16 2/2012 39 pôda pre rast podpory politického radikalizmu a extrémizmu, ktorý sa síce čiastočne zaobaľuje do slovníka "klasického" miestami až extrémne vybičovaného nacionalizmu, ale nie je primárne namierený voči susedným národom, či autochtónnym menšinám, ale najmä voči imigrantom, či "neprispôsobivým" skupinám ako takým. Politický extrémizmus, radikalizmus a nacionalizmus na Slovensku v rámci politických stránVzhľadom na skutočnosť, že v našom príspevku narábame neustále s pojmami politický extrémizmus, radikalizmus a nacionalizmus, je nutné najskôr zadefinovať tieto pojmy a samozrejme taktiež vymedziť, ktoré politické subjekty na slovenskej politickej scéne vn...
More than twenty years after fall of communism Slovakia has experienced unprecedented fall of electoral turnout. It is important to look into the problem of how low turnout may impact ability to get elected in different stages of elections. In the past, there were problems with gerrymandering. This article follows how Slovakia was able to deal with the biggest flaw of its electoral system of the past and investigates its problems today. The article gives a short historical overview of the elections in the region of Slovakia. The stress of the article is on the analysis of the official electoral results of 3 stages of elections to parliament, self-governing regions and municipalities. As electoral systems within the different stages of elections are varied, it is necessary to give an overview on that as well. Analysis of the data will be in the years 1990-2013 with stress on the years 2001-2013. All input data has been provided by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. If low voter turnout combined with mobilization of extremists or dissatisfied electorate it may result in election of extremists into office like in Banská Bystrica self-governing region in the 2013 elections.
The presented paper is devoted to castles and chateaus as one of the very important tourism development factors. The paper is focused on the role of the castles in tourism in the selected countries -Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary and partially Ukraine. The paper deals with the prospects and potential of Slovak castles in the development of tourism in the context of competition neighboring countries.
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