Extending Offer of Options for Tourism in Orava Region with Geotourism Localities

Abstract

Orava, a formerly underdeveloped region, is currently resuming the status of an interesting centre of tourism. Its popularity began to boom there in the second half of the 20thcentury, particularly thanks to the Orava Reservoir. The region was also affected by the geopolitical changes back at the end of the 1980s. The region never had much industry and thus the landscape may now offer many beauties of both the animate and inanimate nature. The geological structure and geomorphology of the ground also offer a number of tourist destinations. The paper mentions several of these, namely the klippes in Podbiel, the Orava Castle, the Orava Reservoir and its surroundings with the discoveries of meteoritic iron, Pucov plum-pudding stone, and the geothermal spring in Oravice. The paper also describes one technical monument, František's ironworks in Podbiel. An offer of geomontane/geotourist trails through Orava may attract a wide spectrum of visitors to the region.