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Article

Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia

by
Bohuslava Gregorová
1,
Pavel Hronček
2,
Dana Tometzová
2,*,
Mário Molokáč
2 and
Vladimír Čech
3
1
Department of Geography and Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2
Department of Geo and Mining Tourism, Institute of Earth Resources, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, 04200 Košice, Slovakia
3
Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, 08116 Prešov, Slovakia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10569; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569
Submission received: 19 November 2020 / Revised: 13 December 2020 / Accepted: 14 December 2020 / Published: 17 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brownfields in Sustainable Urban and Rural System)
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Abstract

This study analyzes the issue of mining brownfields (sites abandoned after the extraction of minerals) in terms of their secondary use after revitalization as potential new sites of mining tourism. In the first part of the paper, we deal with the theoretical basis of the study, the conceptualization of mining brownfields, possibilities for their revitalization, and their sustainability for mining tourism. In the second part, we analyze mining brownfields as devastated mining sites using a questionnaire survey conducted among students of geotourism and geography at three Slovak universities in Košice, Banská Bystrica, and Prešov. The result of our several years of field research was a database of mining brownfields in Slovakia. According to our findings and the latest theoretical and methodological literature about other types of brownfields, we compiled a comprehensive definition of mining brownfields. The questionnaire survey confirmed that mining brownfields are interesting destinations for (mining) tourism with long-term sustainability. The equipment of the services did not directly determine the number of visitors, who did not perceive the risk and danger of visiting mining brownfields.
Keywords: brownfields; postmining areas; derelict areas; revitalization; tourism; evaluation; sustainability brownfields; postmining areas; derelict areas; revitalization; tourism; evaluation; sustainability

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Gregorová, B.; Hronček, P.; Tometzová, D.; Molokáč, M.; Čech, V. Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

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Gregorová B, Hronček P, Tometzová D, Molokáč M, Čech V. Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia. Sustainability. 2020; 12(24):10569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

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Gregorová, Bohuslava, Pavel Hronček, Dana Tometzová, Mário Molokáč, and Vladimír Čech. 2020. "Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia" Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

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Gregorová, B., Hronček, P., Tometzová, D., Molokáč, M., & Čech, V. (2020). Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia. Sustainability, 12(24), 10569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

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