Overtourism in the Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark: Identifying Affected Sites Through Participatory Mapping

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73630653

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01088-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01088-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01088-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12371-025-01088-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Overtourism in the Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark: Identifying Affected Sites Through Participatory Mapping

Original language description

Although one of the goals of geoparks is to protect geological heritage and to strive for sustainable development of the surrounding communities, many popular sites are experiencing overtourism that undermines these efforts. Negative impacts of intensive tourism typically include environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, congestion of transport and tourism infrastructure, negative visitor experience, social conflict, and cultural erosion in local communities. It is, therefore, advisable to prevent overtourism and focus not only on its measurable manifestations (objective dimension) but also on its perception by residents and visitors (subjective dimension). In this paper, we present a method for identifying overtourism-affected sites in the Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark, using a web-based participatory mapping application. The results showed that the method, even with a relatively small sample of respondents, gives good and very specific results, allowing subsequent consideration of the findings in tourism management plans of geoparks. Although participatory mapping is not one of the usual data collection methods in tourism, its use can be recommended since it is not only nature that suffers from over-tourism but also residents who will be happy to participate in solving this problem.

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

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Geoheritage>

ISSN

1867-2477

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001455136900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105001491495