Branislav Kršák

Technical University of Kosice - Technicka univerzita v Kosiciach · Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology

The presented notes focus partially on two of the basic elements (accessibility and image) of any managed tourism destination from the perspective of basic ETL processes over open and third-party data. The specific case aims to investigate the usability of open government data on occupancy in combination with third-party data on online audiences’ e...

Sustainable tourism development within protected areas has been a subject of interest for professionals. The effective development of nature-based tourism can be beneficial to both the environment and people. This work presents the results of research on the positive and negative impacts of tourism in protected areas of Slovakia as perceived by the...

Shortage of surface water is considered an international problem that has even extended to countries that have rivers, in particular countries sharing the same river basins and downstream countries, such as Egypt. This issue requires intensive management of available water resources. Irrigation Canals Rehabilitation (ICR) has become essential to pr...

This series was launched in 2021 by the Working Group of Economic and Social History of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to present research conducted within its framework. The foreign language edition is meant to be a contribution to the internationalization of research made in Hungary. The Working Group has made ev...

Development of diesel engines is focused on reduction of exhaust gas emissions, increase of efficiency of the fuel mixture combustion and decrease of fuel consumption. Such engines are referred to as low-emission engines. Low- engines trends bring higher engine power outputs, torques and also increase of vibrations and noisiness level. In order to...

Slovakia is renowned for its remarkable and rare natural beauty, abundant in natural resources with several noteworthy geological features. However, the protection of nature has primarily been understood as the protection of biodiversity in Slovakia. For the conservation of geological diversity and landforms, very little has been done. Geoconservat...

The paper follows-up ongoing research focusing on the potential of machine-readable data as additional knowledge in the governance of local tourism and destination management organizations (DMOs) in Slovakia. The current focus is on one classic social media (Facebook), one location-based social media (Foursquare), two hybrid travel-related platform...

Analyzing the usability of open machine-readable registries in the context of minimizing gaps for local occupancy tax evasions in the example of Slovakia is the main purpose of this paper. The concept uses the Registry of Financial Statements’ and Registry of Legal Entities’ application programming interfaces (APIs) for extracting public data on co...

The impact of tourism on quality of life standards in regions is significant in terms of people, planet, and profit. This paper examines the subnational NUTS 2 level regions, (in line with Eurostat) by applying several interlinked and connected indicators. Adopting the three Ps (people, planet, profit) of the Sustainability Services Marketing Mix,...

There has been a large support given to building of cycling routes in Slovakia for last few years at all levels and many aspects. Not just legislative, strategic and technical point of view but also financial support is necessary to take in account. According to this big effort is necessary to be more focused on a question of evaluation of impacts...

Geotourism as a globally growing phenomenon is based on several principles where sustainability plays a key role. The value of an individual site of visitors’ interest (geosite, geomorphosite, or site of geological heritage—a primary point of interest in geotourism) may be expressed via specific assessment methods. However, recent geosite assessmen...

Purpose: The revenues for mobile data transmission overtook the revenue of voice calls for the first time in 2014 in the USA. It can be observed that demand for mobile data – largely driven by video and cloud - is increasing exponentially, while overall data revenue is rising only moderately. This will lead to insufficient revenues stream to increa...

Geoparks are an acknowledged system for preservation and protection of geological and natural heritage, but also considered as a positive stimulator for development of environmentally friendly tourism products, marketing campaigns for DMOs and growth of tourism flow in destinations covering geoparks. Currently the Ministry of Environment of the Slo...

The manuscript follows up an earlier analysed issue on online open data resources with content on Slovakia’s mining heritage and approaches that could support the integration of mining heritage into tourism destinations’ offer. Since official databases containing spatial data on mining heritage have restricted licenses for reuse, the current part a...

In last decades, several new and “non-traditional” forms of tourism has been developed as a result of specific needs of particular groups of tourists. Geotourism offers via geoparks several opportunities of regional tourism development. The aim of this study is focused on two major points: 1 – to introduce geoto urism as an innovative approach with...

The main aim of this paper is to give a review of the methods used for monitoring visitors in a tourist destination in Slovakia. According to the research findings, it can be assumed that the monitoring system of visitors is not comprehensive and unified in Slovakia and requires much more attention. The article is mainly focused on quantitative met...

The manuscript deals with the issue of mining tourism's impact on a destination's competitiveness by raising awareness about the linkage between relevant mining POIs datasets and the destination's efficiency. The aim is to propose a possible concept of linking the relevant partial content of chosen applications into one comprehensive application th...

For the geodetic survey of the terrain surface, the use of conventional surveying methods and instruments is common. New technologies, such as e.g. UAVs and their combination with a digital camera, bring new opportunities also in the documentation of Earth’s surface. This combination of technologies allows for the use of low-cost digital photogramm...

Increasing competition in the field of the provision of services in tourism is forcing companies and institutions providing these services to think about the possibilities to increase their competitiveness, efficiency, and productivity. The aim of this initiative is to increase the customer´s satisfaction with the services provided, which directly...

Combining Augemented Reality (AR) and Gamification techniques, applications with ludic and education content can be created. In this article, the authors present the most outstanding examples of Augmented Reality application focused on tourism, as well, as their own Augmented Reality application NosfeRAtu. The application creates a virtual tour in...

The proposed paper deals with different approaches to the issue of shortage of relevant customer behavior data and key performance indicators for evaluating and planning for mining tourism. Mining tourism's offer is concentrated in tourist destinations emerging from tourist sub-regions or other areas of interest that by unwritten rules may or may n...

In 1987, Slovakia bought part of the ocean bottom with the occurrence of mineral resources future - polymetallic nodules. The polymetallic nodule is a geological term for naming natural features consisting of more than 40 metals and other chemical elements. These special services originated in the ocean for two to three million years and nowadays,...

Ecosystem services (ESS) represent the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to the human well-being. Action 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 calls Member States to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services in their national territory. The work being carried out is important for the advancement of biodiversity obj...

Geotourism as a rapidly evolving and attractive tourism form expands into many regions. This ‘new’ tourism form brings new research issues to be solved including, e.g. geosite identification, geosite assessment, geopark establishment, (geo)tourist trail definitions. One of the biggest challenges of researchers not only in the field of geotourism is...

In the article, we focused on the possibilities, ways and methods of rating important natural region, its individual locations and tourist routes (hiking trails) on the basis of the tourist attendance. The assessed area of this study was the Slovak Paradise National Park (Slovakia), belongs to the most important natural locations and also a major g...

Development of diesel engines is focused on reduction of exhaust gas emissions, increase of efficiency of the fuel mixture combustion and decrease of fuel consumption. Such engines are referred to as low-emission engines. Lowengines trends bring higher engine power outputs, torques and also increase of vibrations and noisiness level. Tn order to re...

Significance of information-communication technologies (ICT) in education at present significantly occurs in the context of innovation of educational system. Education with electronic support generally penetrates into education, particularly in distance form of study. Changes related to distance learning with electronic support should be incorporat...

Each employee has a unique potential, which needs to be stimulated in order to be productive as much as possible. Education is an important factor for this stimulation because only well educated employees represent a real competitive advantage for the company. The research survey of educational needs within tourism organisations in the Kosice regio...

Worldwide geotourism growth and development often results in activities that are often connected to the geoparks - areas of geological heritage conservation, preservation and presentation. Geopark establishment represents one of the first steps in the process of geotourism development in any area. This paper is devoted to designation and descriptio...

Geodetic measurements belong to the most accurate, but also the most laborious methods of obtaining spatial data. In this paper, the economic efficiency of most frequently used geodetic methods; GNSS, tachometer and laser scanning will be evaluated. These methods have been used to range a landfill in aggregate surface mine and they were subsequentl...

Article is dedicated to the importance of ICT in tourism as an important tool for development of that sector. Briefly defines the possibilities of their applications for tourism, as well as disadvantages associated with their implementation. At the same time presents the results of a survey of the use of information technologies by small and medium...

TU v Košiciach, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice -Fakulta výrobných technológií TU v Košiciach so sídlom v Prešove, Bayerova 1, 080 01 Prešov -Podnikovohospodárska fakulta EU v Bratislave so sídlom v Košiciach ABSTRAKT Manažérsky informačný systém (MIS) možno definovať ako informačný systém na manažérskom stupni riadenia organizácie, ktorý slúži funkciám plá...