ABSTRACT Show caves are one of the most important targets in developing local ecotourism strategies. This work focuses on a tourism visit rate incidence through an Attractiveness Index concerning 12 selected show caves in Slovakia. Our study focuses on visitor counts published from 2000 to 2014. A set of eight criteria were selected in order to analyse and determine the appeal that each cave may have for visitors. Establishing the “degree” of appeal as an indicator of the tourism and geographic absolute attractiveness value is based on a principal components factor analysis; the resultant single factor was correlated with our selected criteria. We find a strong correlation between touristic cave attractiveness and cave locations, ease of cave passage access (vehicle and trail) infrastructures, cave location in main tourism regions, and the growth of urban areas as they encroach on show cave locations. Similar studies in valorization of show caves tourism have not been attempted in Slovakia or Eastern Europe. The data and result from this study are also clearly important from a managerial perspective. This general framework could be easily expanded to include additional attributes that might be relevant for other market segments or other vacation experiences.

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2000 年至 2014 年斯洛伐克游客游览比例的动态显示洞穴

摘要 表演洞穴是发展当地生态旅游战略的最重要目标之一。这项工作的重点是通过关于斯洛伐克 12 个选定展示洞穴的吸引力指数的旅游访问率发生率。我们的研究侧重于 2000 年至 2014 年公布的游客人数。选择了一组八个标准来分析和确定每个洞穴对游客的吸引力。建立吸引力“程度”作为旅游和地理绝对吸引力值的指标是基于主成分因子分析；由此产生的单个因素与我们选择的标准相关。我们发现旅游洞穴吸引力与洞穴位置、洞穴通道（车辆和步道）基础设施的便利性、主要旅游区的洞穴位置、以及城市地区的增长，因为它们侵占了展示洞穴的位置。斯洛伐克或东欧尚未尝试过类似的洞穴旅游价值研究。从管理的角度来看，这项研究的数据和结果显然也很重要。这个通用框架可以很容易地扩展到包括可能与其他细分市场或其他度假体验相关的其他属性。