<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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).</p></abstract>

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).

Role of Railway Transport in Tourism: Selected Problems and Examples in Slovakia

Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava,

Quaestiones Geographicae

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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...

Role of Railway Transport in Tourism: Selected Problems and Examples in Slovakia

Published Online: Dec 22, 2016

Page range: 107 - 120

Received: Dec 21, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0039

Keywords
railway transport, zero-fare public rail transport services, narrow-gauge railways, tourism, Slovakia

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

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Role of Railway Transport in Tourism: Selected Problems and Examples in Slovakia

Published Online: Dec 22, 2016

Page range: 107 - 120

Received: Dec 21, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0039

Keywordsrailway transport, zero-fare public rail transport services, narrow-gauge railways, tourism, Slovakia

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
railway transport, zero-fare public rail transport services, narrow-gauge railways, tourism, Slovakia