Role of railway transport in tourism: Selected problems and examples in Slovakia
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2016
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WydziaĆ Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Transport is a very important part of activities in the tourism sector. In addition to the transport of tourists
to and within a destination, transport itself can be a tourist attraction. The aim of this paper is to analyse selected
problems of railways in Slovakia (a decrease in the importance of railways for passenger transport in Slovakia in the
past 20 years, discontinued passenger transport on certain railway tracks and the modernisation of other tracks, and
zero-fare public rail transport services for certain categories of passengers), and to present good examples of the use of
narrow-gauge railways for the purposes of tourism (the Tatra Electric Railways and the Kysuce-Orava Forest Railway).
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railway transport, zero-fare public rail transport services, narrow-gauge railways, tourism, Slovakia
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (4), 2016, pp. 107-120