VIDIECKY TURIZMUS V MARGINALIZOVANOM PROSTREDÍ (NA PRÍKLADE OBCE HRUŠOV)
TOURISM IN MARGINALIZED ENVIRONMENT (THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE HRUŠOV)

Author(s): Jolana Darulová, Katarína Koštialová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Regional Geography, Rural and urban sociology, Tourism
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: marginalized regions; settlement in mountain region/hamlets; cultural heritage; rural tourism;
Summary/Abstract: Among marginalized regions in Slovakia are localities that are characteristic for the scattered settlement taken in dozens of square kilometres closer to bigger municipalities. These are depopulated parts of the territory with the rural or hamlet settlement with limited conditions for agricultural production but with the above the average or higher recreational potential. The study concerns on the various possibilities of cultural heritage usage precisely in these difficult developmental conditions. The aim of this article is on the example of the community of Hrušov to characterize the options and forms of cultural heritage publicity, material and spiritual values for possible visitors and to evaluate the socio-cultural and natural prospective through tourism. According to methodology, we have used the basic ethnographic methods, specialized literature, materials and documents. The field research was realized through the observation method and the partially standardized interviews with the municipal authorities, original inhabitants of hamlets as well as with the “newcomers”. The key results of this study point out the traditional rural and cultural elements that formed the basic resource of local tourism together with the new specific forms or alternative forms that are created by new residents.

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