Monitoring of visitors as a tool of protected areas management

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.26493/2335-4194.13.67-79" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.26493/2335-4194.13.67-79</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26493/2335-4194.13.67-79" target="_blank" >10.26493/2335-4194.13.67-79</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Monitoring of visitors as a tool of protected areas management

Original language description

This article reviews the possibilities of using visitor monitoring in the management of a protected area in the example of the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area pla). The Moravian Karst is the largest and most significant karst area in the Czech Republic. Its location near a large city and its easy accessibility mean that some of the pla’s parts are faced with the negative impacts of overly intensive tourism on rare natural sites and protected species. While the presence of visitors in a protected area is desirable, it is necessary to regulate their activities in the area. The pla management needs quality informationfor its decision making, such as on the current characteristicsand behaviour of visitors. To obtain this information, primary marketing research was carried out at selected pla sitesfrom May to September 2018. A questionnaire survey was used to obtain data from 2,100 visitors and to define the Moravian Karst visitor profile. We found that most visitors were attracted to caves open to the public and the Macocha gorge and that almost a quarter of respondents were planning to return to the pla within six months of questioning. A major challenge for the sustainable development of tourism in the area will be the fact that visitors to the caves are not interestedin visiting other localities in the pla. The data obtained about visitors will be used by the pla management to formulate measures to redirect visitors from the most-visited locations to the less-visited ones.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Academica Turistica

ISSN

18553303

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

67-79

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090763899