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GEOTOUR & IRSE 2012
1. Placing commemorative tables at places of his engineering works
2. Put copies of his maps and engravings on display in Slovakian and Austrian as well as
Hungarian museums
a. Create local museums displaying copies of Mikoviny´s works (maps,
engineering drawings, engravings)
3. Create a web page devoted to Mikoviny with an interesting programme offer.
4. Map all the engineering works of Mikoviny that can still be found on the territory of
Slovakia and Hungary
5. Chart out the Mikoviny heritage trail/s following his surviving engineering works.
6. Arrange the appearance of his living relatives in the media (in 1985 his grand grand
daughter Dr. K. Mikoviny-Hončariv PhD made a lecture during the Seminar on „Past,
present and future of higher education in mining in Slovakia“ devoted to the memory
of S. Mikovíny and the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the School of
Mining in Banská Ńtiavnica in Kosice. Now, grand-grand-grand children could be
engaged in building a new public image of S. Mikoviny. It is not so frequent that there
is a multigeneration- long row of descendants that have a high professional reputation.
The next step would be to change the attraction into an experience (Puczkó, Rátz, 2000). For
this an assessment of the services and their quality along a trail or route is needed. This
includes the assessment of the quality of the visual experience of the destination/s, the
available information on the site, the availability and quality of guide services, the availability
and quality of rural/city tourism services, the availability and quality of hospitality services
(catering, lodging), the visual marking of the access routes and the attractions, availability of
interactive information points (manned or computer based) and the quality of social response
of the people involved in these processed towards the tourists at the given destination. This all
should be benchmarked and projected into a brand (Chernatony 2009).
In this manner, in spite of the fact that there is an overabundance of information that is
channelled to people from various medial sources, Mikoviny is a “new” subject that can have
a fresh effect on tourists. Much more so as an increasing amount of tourists want to discover
“forgotten” destinations or sites, or trails that are outside the “glamour” of usual tourist
attractions. It has to be, however a “managed attraction” that is continually developed with
improved quality of services (Puczkó, Rátz 2000). As it shown in Fig.7, a pool of Slovakian
and foreign respondents gave Culture and history as the most important holiday motive, thus
the suggested tourism product has a great probability of success.
Fig.7 Aggregate data on holiday motives of 957 respondents for destination Slovakia Scale: 1 most important, 5
least important. Source: IMP 2010
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