Identifying the Main Motivations to Visit Salt Mines: Do Socio-demographic Variables Matter?
Mihaela Gabriela Chiricheş,
István Egresi
Abstract:Identifying the Main Motivations to Visit Salt Mines: Do Socio-Demographic Variables Matter? Salt has been extracted from mines in Europe for thousands of years. More recently, some of these salt mines reinvented themselves as new tourism objectives attracting hundreds of thousands and even millions of visitors each year. This research aims to investigate the main reasons tourists visit a former salt mine, focusing on Turda Salt Mine, in Romania, as a case study. The study found that the main motivations for v… Show more
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