THE CEMETERY AS A PART OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF TOURISM

Abstract

The article reviews research into the tourism resource of cemeteries and establishes the place they occupy in geographical and tourism space. At the same time the author discusses attitudes to ‘cemetery space’ of interest from a tourism perspective. The review is based on the literature and the author’s study of the tourism resources of cemeteries such as those from World War I in the Beskid Niski range of hills.