The Tourist Trails Development in the Protection Plans of the Lower Silesian Landscape Parks
The Tourist Trails Development in the Protection Plans of the Lower Silesian Landscape Parks

Summary/Abstract: Landscape parks are created to protect the unique natural, landscape and cultural resources.Nature conservation objectives of the parks are often in conflict with their tourist and recreationalfunctions. In order to enable tourists to enjoy the values of the parks tourist infrastructure shouldbe adequate. One of the elements of tourist infrastructure are tourist trails. The system of the trailsand their technical condition have a great influence on management of tourist traffic. The aim of thestudy is to analyze protection plans of Lower Silesian landscape parks in terms of the guidelines forthe development of tourism infrastructure. Protection plans in part relating to tourism developmenthave been analyzed for 8 of the 12 parks in the Lower Silesia Province. This part of documentationidentify potential and actual risks within the landscape parks and determine how to eliminate theserisks. It provides a basis for proper planning of tourism development taking into account the natureand landscape protection. The analyzes show that in most of the parks the system of tourist trailsis correct but there are some proposals for single additions. the need to maintain good condition oftourist trails, eliminate problem of bad marking of the trails and the need for better management oftourist traffic in single parks are also pointed out.

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