Development of a New Tourist Destination by Building a New Railway Infrastructure

Abstract

The introduction of a new railway infrastructure should be a generator of an economically sustainable tourist development. The priority is an analysis of economic and social factors of the territory where the new infrastructure will be implemented. In the same time on the territory in question it is required to investigate the traffic demand of passenger and cargo transport and the consequences of the new railway infrastructure implementation regarding environment control. The concept of sustainable tourist development indicates a necessity of optimal use of environment resources that are the foundation of tourist development and by doing that keeping the important ecological processes intact and helping the protection and preservation of natural heritage and biodiversity. Traffic planning cannot be founded on pure satisfaction of traffic demand anymore hence it has to control traffic growth and channel it through the modelling of options of sustainable development.