Zoo Tourism in the Visegrad Four Countries: Importance and Trends

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37741/t.71.1.3" target="_blank" >10.37741/t.71.1.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Zoo Tourism in the Visegrad Four Countries: Importance and Trends

Original language description

Attendance is one of the indicators of tourist attractions&apos; success. Zoological gardens are among the most visited tourist attractions. However, there is practically no research on this topic, less so in post-socialist countries. Therefore, this article aims to identify, using the example of the Visegrad Four countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), how zoo attendance generally develops and to discuss why it is so. For this purpose, a database of Eo member zoos in these countries was created. Attendance data was obtained from multiple sources, e.g. from annual reports, the International Zoo Yearbook (IZY), and email communication. It was found that the total attendance has been on the rise since it plummeted at the beginning of the 1990s; Czech zoos went up first and now they are the absolute most visited, even per capita. The current attendance (2019) to Czech zoos has more than doubled compared to the mid-1960s; in Slovakia and Poland, it does not reach even 150%. There was an increase of almost 43 % from 2010 to 2019; the highest one was in Poland. The most visited zoo since 2015 has been the Wroclaw Zoo (PL), where an iconic Afrykarium was opened.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Tourism

ISSN

1332-7461

e-ISSN

1849-1545

Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

44-57

UT code for WoS article

000992717700003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85152577806