Challenges and Threats to Tourism on the Hel Peninsula in the 21st Century Cover Image

Wyzwania i zagrożenia dla turystyki na Półwyspie Helskim w XXI wieku
Challenges and Threats to Tourism on the Hel Peninsula in the 21st Century

Author(s): Robert Borkowski
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy, Environmental interactions, Tourism
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: Hel Peninsula; Seaside Landscape Park; tourism safety; carrying capacity; tourism dysfunctions; ecological threats; active tourism;

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the paper is to reflect on the state of the development of tourism on the Hel Peninsula in the first decades of this century. The Hel Peninsula is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Poland and a unique ecosystem that combines natural, landscape, climatic and historical values. The huge attractiveness of the area attracts a significant number of tourists in the summer season who indulge in various forms of tourism and recreation, ranging from leisure, thematic to qualified and extreme tourism. The uncontrolled inflow of tourists and investments of the local population in the accommodation base, however, cause an ecological threat and overload of tourist absorption of this part of the Seaside Landscape Park. Initiatives of environmentalists to exclude admission to some coastal areas, in turn, have the character of utopian projects, radical and detached from social realities. However, the greatest threat to the tourist attractions of the peninsula are the construction investment plans that are often unnecessary and pose the threat of destroying the local landscape irreversibly.

  • Issue Year: XXXV/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-145
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish