Speleotourism in Slovenia: balancing between mass tourism and geoheritage protection
Slovenia is considered as the cradle of karst geotourism as cave tourism started there as early as the Middle Ages. To date more than 12,000 caves were discovered from which 22 have the status of tourist caves. From these, 10 were assessed using the M-GAM model (Modified Geosite Assessment Model) to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-08-01
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Series: | Open Geosciences |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/geo-2018-0027 |