DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-082-5-0340
Cross-border Ski Resorts in the European Union and their Possible Emergence in the Visegrad Group Region
- Pavel Trčala
ORCID...1 - 1 Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 267/2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
This article focuses on exploring the specific topic of cross-border ski resorts. Firstly, it seeks to identify the existing resorts and describe the advantages and challenges of these ski areas both from the point of view of ski area operators and from the point of view of skiers. A valuable finding of the research directly in an existing cross-border ski area offers an argument that many skiers and employees using the chairlifts and slopes on both sides of the border do not view the resort only as a sport or entertainment area, but also as a meeting point of two different nations and a place of cultural exchange. Secondly, the author selects the most plausible location for the creation of a cross-border ski area in the Visegrad Group region.
Klíčová slova: Cross-Border Cooperation, Border Regions, Ski Resorts, Tourism, Regional Development
stránky: 340-349, online: 2026
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