Csaba Sidor

Technical University of Kosice - Technicka univerzita v Kosiciach · OGaMT

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...