Tourist management in national parks in the Czech-German borderland: Bohemian ‘Switzerland’ and Saxon ‘Switzerland’

2021

J. Mt. Sci.

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Along the Czech-German border there are four national parks, two Czech and two German, arranged in cross-border ‘pairs’. This article focuses on the southern ‘pair’ formed by the parks of Šumava and Bayerischer Wald (Bavarian Forest). The aim is to evaluate and compare tourism organization in their areas, taking into account selected aspects of management: the network of hiking trails with its related infrastructure, transport accessibility, a typology of tourist centers, as well as directions and destinations of tourist movements. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the availability of geographical space for tourists is much greater in the German than in the Czech national park, and the tourism infrastructure is clearly more extensive there, including the network of tourist trails. This is mainly due to the longer and fairly uninterrupted development of tourism in this area. Šumava National Park can be identified as a model in terms of how to adjust the directions of tourist movements and the layout of the tourist trail network to the needs of natural environment. On the basis of observations in both national parks, it is possible to indicate various solutions that, after appropriate adaptation, may bring benefits to other protected areas.

“…The presented examples of national parks show that history has a great influence on tourism management. As noted by Kołodziejczyk (2020dKołodziejczyk ( , p. 2876:…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism management in national parks: Šumava and Bayerischer Wald (Bavarian Forest) in the Czech-German borderland

2021

J. Mt. Sci.

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“…Eagles 2008;Price 1992). This type of infrastructure attracts tourists, therefore it is not necessarily appropriate to develop it in national parks or nature reserves, where the protective function should be dominant and elements of tourism infrastructure should be kept to a minimum (Kołodziejczyk 2020c). It is also inadvisable to create new attractions here which would usually intensify the already substantial tourism.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Chylińska

2021

J. Mt. Sci.

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A view is often more than just a piece of landscape, framed by the gaze and evoking emotion. Without diminishing these obvious ‘tourism-important’ advantages of a view, it is noteworthy that in itself it might play the role of an interpretative tool, especially for large-scale phenomena, the knowledge and understanding of which is the goal of geotourism. In this paper, we analyze the importance of scenic drives and trails for tourism, particularly geotourism, focusing on their ability to create conditions for experiencing the dynamically changing landscapes in which lies knowledge of the natural processes shaping the Earth’s surface and the methods and degree of its resource exploitation. The issues are found in both wider and local contexts. A more detailed insight has been conducted on the basis of two, although in some sense peripheral, tourism regions from the Sudeten Mountains (southwestern Poland): Lasocki Grzbiet (a ridge) and Pasmo Lesistej (a small range). The subjects of the investigation were complex: the geotourism potential of selected viewpoints located on the most scenic routes (mostly paths and forest tracks) as well as the problems of maintenance, conservation, and protection of their educational value. Our work is based on desk and field research supported by results of GIS visibility analyses (conducted in the QGIS program).

“…• wskaźnik Kansky'ego β = e/v, gdzie e -liczba krawędzi, v -liczba wierzchołków (im wyższe wartości współczynnika β, tym większa spójność sieci), • wskaźnik Kansky'ego γ = e/[3(v -2)], który wyraża stosunek istniejącej liczby krawędzi do maksymalnej możliwej liczby krawędzi wynikającej z liczby wierzchołków (wartości tego wskaźnika zawierają się w przedziale od 0 przy całkowitym braku spójności do 1, gdy istnieją wszystkie możliwe krawędzie), • wskaźnik α = μ/(2v -5), gdzie μ to liczba cyklomatyczna obliczana ze wzoru μ = e -v + p, przy czym p to liczba izolowanych podgrafów. Wskaźniki grafowe są często wykorzystywane do opisu i analizy sieci szlaków turystycznych różnych rodzajów (Krakowiak, 1997;Styperek, 2001Styperek, , 2002aStyperek, , 2002bTaczanowska et al, 2014;Kołodziejczyk, 2015Kołodziejczyk, , 2019Kołodziejczyk, , 2020aKołodziejczyk, , 2020c. Pozwalają nie tylko ocenić rozwój i spójność sieci, ale także porównywać ich kształt, co może mieć znaczenie przy projektowaniu dalszego rozwoju szlaków na danym obszarze, a także wyposażaniu ich w infrastrukturę.…”

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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

2022

Prz. Geogr.

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.