Zoo Tourism in the Visegrad Four Countries: Importance and Trends

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Zoo Tourism in the Visegrad Four Countries: Importance and Trends

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Zoo Tourism in the Visegrad Four Countries: Importance and Trends

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Tourism

ISSN

1332-7461

e-ISSN

1849-1545

Svazek periodika

71

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

HR - Chorvatská republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

44-57

Kód UT WoS článku

000992717700003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85152577806