Koncentrační tábor Osvětim: zhodnocení koncentračního tábora jako atraktivity cestovního ruchu

The aim of the submitted diploma thesis is to evaluate the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as a tourist attraction and preconditions for the development of tourism in the area. The second goal is to find out the interest in attractiveness among students of Prague universities. Other partial goals of the paper are to define the terms dark tourism, holocaust tourism, concentration camp and extermination camp and for these last two also to determine the differences that distinguish the terms. The first chapters introduce general terms from tourism, define dark tourism and Holocaust tourism, introduce the terms concentration camp and extermination camp. The following chapters then present the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial as such and analyze the various preconditions that result from the Mariot method. These are selective, localization and implementation preconditions for the development of tourism. The evaluation of the museum as an attraction is also supplemented by a SWOT analysis that also takes into account internal factors. A questionnaire survey was used to find out the interests of students in Prague schools. The questionnaire was created online and then distributed in the same way.