The untapped potential of scenic routes for geotourism: case studies of Lasocki Grzbiet and Pasmo Lesistej (Western and Central Sudeten Mountains, SW Poland)

Chylińska, Dagmara; Kołodziejczyk, Krzysztof

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“…C. Jeden z budynków na osiedlu letniskowym Bielawa-Kamieniczki; D. Wnętrze Smoczej Jamy, czyli dawnej sztolni (fot. K. Kołodziejczyk, 2020Kołodziejczyk, , 2021Kołodziejczyk, , 2022 Selected sightseeing assets encompassed by the network of hiking trails in the Sowie Mountains in recent years: A. the dam on Lake Bystrzyckie. B. Kroacka Studzienka -a monument above a spring.…”

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Rozwój sieci szlaków pieszych w Górach Sowich po II wojnie światowej = Development of the hiking-trail network in Poland’s Sowie Mountains since the Second World War

Kołodziejczyk

2022

Prz. Geogr.

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Since 2014, there has been a rapid development of the network of hiking trails in the Sowie Mountains, being part of the processes taking place in various parts of the Sudeten Mountains, especially in the Central Sudeten. These changes were analysed using i.a. graph analysis. The changes in the degree of development and coherence of the hiking trail network after World War II were determined and the reasons for marking new routes were examined, taking into account the tourist attractiveness of the area and the role these sections play in the network. The length of hiking trails in the Sowie Mountains in 2022 compared to 2005 almost doubled, with an approximate threefold increase in the number of nodes and sections between them. As a result the coherence of the network slightly decreased, but the possibilities of organising trips have clearly improved. There are many positive aspects of the development of the trail network in the Sowie Mountains. The new routes are related to the sightseeing values, they refer to the location of public transport stops, but also parking lots at the foot of the mountains and at the passes. There is a clear tendency to reduce the share of the asphalt surface.

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Rozwój sieci szlaków pieszych w Górach Sowich po II wojnie światowej = Development of the hiking-trail network in Poland’s Sowie Mountains since the Second World War

Kołodziejczyk

2022

Prz. Geogr.

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Factors determining changes in the network of marked hiking trails in the Sudetes

Kołodziejczyk

2024

J. Mt. Sci.

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Hiking trails are a basic type of tourist infrastructure, which, on the one hand, make areas available for tourist traffic, and on the other hand, can contribute to the protection of the natural environment (if they are well designed and maintained). Owing to the variety of performed functions, their designation is determined by several factors: natural, technical, economic, social. Networks of trails change constantly. The aim of this article is to determine exactly what factors influence transformations within the hiking trail networks and what is their significance. To this end, three study areas in the Sudetes were analysed: one on the Polish side of the Sudetes–the Table (Stołowe) Mountains, and two on the Czech side–the rock town near the village of Sloup v Čechách and the central part of Zlatohorská vrchovina. An analysis of changes in the shape of the networks over time was carried out, as well as surveys of institutions that were responsible for or influenced these transformations. These areas are characterised by a significant level of changes in the trail network. Among the factors influencing these changes, the tourist attractiveness of the area, the resilience of the environment, the intensity of tourism traffic, the environmental transformations associated with it, the history of tourism development and land ownership changes should be considered the most important. At each stage of forming networks, the key factor should be tourists’ needs, including the desire to escape the urbanised environment. For this reason, trails should avoid roads with artificial (hard) surfaces and heavy automobile traffic.

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New Early Cretaceous Geosites with Palaeogeographical Value from the Northwestern Caucasus

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Tolokonnikova

2022

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Field investigations in the northwestern segment of the Greater Caucasus, a Late Cenozoic orogen, have permitted the establishment of two new geosites, namely the Ubin and Bezeps geosites. Both represent Berriasian–Middle Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) marine deposits with abundant trace fossils. The latter are attributed to the Nereites ichnofacies and indicate on deep marine palaeoenvironments (this interpretation challenges previous reconstructions). The geosites represent the palaeogeographical type of geoheritage. They are characterized, particularly, by high scientific and aesthetic importance, but restricted accessibility. Further geoheritage inventory in the central Northwestern Caucasus seems to be promising.

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The untapped potential of scenic routes for geotourism: case studies of Lasocki Grzbiet and Pasmo Lesistej (Western and Central Sudeten Mountains, SW Poland)

Cited by 4 publications

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Rozwój sieci szlaków pieszych w Górach Sowich po II wojnie światowej = Development of the hiking-trail network in Poland’s Sowie Mountains since the Second World War

Rozwój sieci szlaków pieszych w Górach Sowich po II wojnie światowej = Development of the hiking-trail network in Poland’s Sowie Mountains since the Second World War

Factors determining changes in the network of marked hiking trails in the Sudetes

New Early Cretaceous Geosites with Palaeogeographical Value from the Northwestern Caucasus

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