A Research Note: Planning for the Carpathians

Natural heritage as a resource for tourism development in the Polish Carpathians

“…Warszyńska 1985, Groch and Kurek 1995, Ptaszycka-Jackowska and Baranowska-Janota 2003, Więckowski 2004, Faracik et al 2009, Zawilińska 2010and Więckowski et al 2012. Lying very much in the heart of East Central Europe, the Carpathians have extremely rich scenic and biodiversity resources that have not been significantly eroded by the modernisation of the last two centuries (Buza andTurnock 2004 andZawilińska 2010). Tourism has been considered an important branch of the economy in the Carpathians for many decades now, and also as one that is often treated as the sole opportunity for socio-economic development.…”

Eco-frontier in the mountainous borderlands of Central Europe

“…Lying very much at the heart of Eastern Central Europe, the Carpathians have extremely rich scenic and biodiversity resources that have not been significantly eroded by modernisation over the last two centuries (Buza and Turnock, 2004). The Polish-Slovakian borderland is indeed an exceptional area from the ecological point of view, with numerous areas of protected nature, both of national and international importance.…”