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Visitors' Impact Evaluation in the Čertoryje Nature Preserve
Čtrnáctý, Jaromír ; Banaš, Marek (advisor) ; Čihař, Martin (referee)
- 8 - ABSTRACT During the last years, nature-based tourism has been a rapidly growing branch. The most significant impacts are often located in the most valuable and vulnerable nature areas. Therefore, finding a compromise between the concerns of visitors and nature area protection will become vital in the near future. This thesis explores the relationship between the visitors' flow and the environment in the Čertoryje Nature Preserve in Bílé Karpaty Mountains. The work consists of four main parts - a map of values, a map of vulnerability, a map of impacts and counting of visitors at the most used routes within the preserve. The work is supported by a survey aimed at the visitors' opinions and by an evaluation of the visitors' space distribution. Finally, the work is completed by concrete management suggestions. As expected, it has been found out that the most valuable and vulnerable areas are the valley of the stream Járkovec and it's south-western slope. This is also where most of the visitors' impacts have been located. Nevertheless, the overall number of the visitors during the survey period turned out to be a bit lower than expected. The survey also revealed that most of the visitors come to the area because of the fauna and flora richness (45,2 % of respondents) and that they stay mainly just for one...
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