Dark tourism, thematic routes and possibilities for innovation in the Slovak Republic

Tourism

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 241-246

  Horodnikova, Jana ^a   Derco, Jan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Battlefield sites; Dark tourism; Slovakia; Thanatourism; WOrld war i cemeteries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937394530     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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