Motivation and Preferences of Visitors in the Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F21%3A00008564" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/21:00008564 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/11/3/116" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/11/3/116</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11030116" target="_blank" >10.3390/geosciences11030116</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Motivation and Preferences of Visitors in the Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark

Original language description

There are some localities in the Bohemian Paradise Geopark that suffer from temporal overtourism in the high season. On the other hand, more than half of the geopark is not so often visited by tourists, although very attractive geosites can be found there too. In the most visited localities, nature is damaged due to overloading of the tourist infrastructure, while elsewhere there is pressure driven by municipalities to increase the number of tourists. For this reason, we organized a large questionnaire survey in summer 2020, which aimed to reveal the motivation of visitors of the geopark and their preferences regarding the places visited. The questionnaire combined several research methods: graphic scales, qualitative open questions, mental map, etc. The analysis of visitors’ answers shows that most of them cannot be described as geotourists, i.e., tourists who are primarily interested in geology and conceive their holiday as a sightseeing stay. Many tourists like to stay in nature without an educational element. We also found that there is a higher proportion of ecotourists and geotourists in less-visited geosites because they appreciate even lesser-known localities and crowds of tourists rather than repel them. The question for the future is, therefore, whether the geopark should strive for greater promotion of lesser-known localities, which would attract even mainstream tourists, or, conversely, to protect these geosites, it should promote only the most visited localities (which are already damaged).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20700 - Environmental engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL03000020" target="_blank" >TL03000020: Proactive solutions to the negative effects of overtourism</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geosciences

ISSN

2076-3263

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000633715600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102739288