Tourists' Reasons for Visiting Mountain Areas: A case study of the S  umava Mountains

Těšitel, Jakub; Kušová, Drahomíra; Bartos, Maciej

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“…Several studies (Těšitel et al 2003(Těšitel et al , 2005(Těšitel et al , 2007Kušová et al 2006;Třebický and Čihař 2006;Görner and Čihař 2012) delivered ideas and recommendations, which were mostly ignored. It is hard to say whether they were unrealistic, or the potential recipients were not interested in or not open to new ideas.…”

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Just how many obstacles are there to creating a National Park? A case study from the Šumava National Park

Křenová

Vrba

2014

European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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This case study reports the recent history and evaluates the socio-economic constraints on nature conservation in the Bohemian Forest, which is the largest natural wilderness area in the central European cultural landscape. This gradually occurred over the past half of century, when nature was allowed to reclaim the most valuable parts along the common Czech-German border and the national parks (NP) were established: the Bavarian Forest NP in Germany (in 1970) and the Šumava NP in the Czech Republic (1991). Unfortunately, since the very beginning of the Šumava NP, its status has been questioned, compromised or debated, and it never received clear political support. Discussions about its future have become never-ending and were only on the appropriate management of the forests, i.e. "non-intervention" management versus "necessary" bark-beetle control. The "bark beetle problem", however, is a wildcard issue that has obscured much more complex problems. This paper is the first attempt to describe the main obstacles and offer some solutions for making the Šumava NP a successful and sustainable project.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Just how many obstacles are there to creating a National Park? A case study from the Šumava National Park

Křenová

Vrba

2014

European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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“…On the other hand, the landscape provides various evidence of a quite intensive farming, which took place in the 19 th and still at the turn of the 20 th century (Breuer et al 2010;Těšitel et al 2003a). Today both national parks are a popular tourist destinations, however on both sides of the border it is mostly domestic (Dickie et al 2014;Gorner and Čihař 2013;see also: Picek et al 2007;Těšitel et al 2003b). The Czech side alone is visited by approximately 2 million tourists every year, while the German -by 1.3 million.…”

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

Kołodziejczyk

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.

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“…The whole territory is important in a world context and Šumava is a UNESCO biosphere reserve while the local peat bogs are protected by the Ramsar Convention for the Protection of Wetlands (Kušová and Těšitel 2016;Křenová and Kiener 2012;Těšitel and Kušová 2010). At the same time the area is a very popular tourist destination (approximately 2 million every year), however it is mostly domestic (Dickie et al 2014;Gorner and Čihař 2013;see also: Picek et al 2007;Těšitel et al 2003b).…”

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Changes in the network of tourist trails in the border zones of the Czech Republic after entering the Schengen area

Kołodziejczyk

2020

J. Mt. Sci.

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Among the factors influencing tourist trail network development are political issues, including the presence of state borders, the possibility of crossing them and the accessibility of border zones. In the article, it was decided to look at changes in the offer of tourist trails (hiking and cycling) along the entire border of the Czech Republic after the extension of the Schengen area (within this area, crossing the border is possible anywhere, and not only at official border crossings). It should be emphasized here that the borders of the Czech Republic over most of their length run through mountainous areas and, apart from political factors, natural features should have a major impact on the development of tourist routes. In order to determine the coherence of the current network of trails on both sides of the Czech Republic state border, modern tourist maps have been analyzed, determining the number of places where it is possible to cross the state border with the help of a marked tourist trail. Based on that, two indicators were introduced to determine the degree of openness with all neighboring countries as regards the opportunity to cross on a tourist trail. Changes in the historical situation, a comparison of the accessibility of the border area before entering the Schengen area and 2019, were analyzed for two study areas using archival maps. Over a decade after the extension of the Schengen area, the number of places where tourist trails of neighboring countries approach the border has clearly increased. Crossing is more often made possible using hiking trails than cycling routes (trails of the first type cross the border every 7.91 km, while the latter every 13.3 km), but considering the speed of movement, it can be assessed that the openness for cyclists is higher than for hikers. Moreover, in many places there is still significant potential for further integration of tourist trail networks as trails created in one country often do not have a continuation on the other side of the border.

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Tourists' Reasons for Visiting Mountain Areas: A case study of the S umava Mountains

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Just how many obstacles are there to creating a National Park? A case study from the Šumava National Park

Just how many obstacles are there to creating a National Park? A case study from the Šumava National Park

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

Changes in the network of tourist trails in the border zones of the Czech Republic after entering the Schengen area

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