Abstract
Abstract This paper proposes a new methodology for assessing the potential of sustainable tourism. It examines the overall potential of the landscape when faced with the negative impacts of tourism. Our assessment combines components of tourism and environmental sustainability. The methodology involved consultation with experts, and verification by tourists before being applied to the study area. The methodology was then applied to selected tourism centres in the Giant Mountains. The Giant Mountains are a popular tourist destination thanks to their outstanding natural beauty, and represent significant potential for tourism development. They are also one of the most over-burdened regions from tourism in the Czech Republic. However, many negative impacts of tourism exist, reducing the overall tourism potential of the region. Comparative results from the individual tourist centres in the study reveal the significant impact of potentially reducing attributes. Our assessment of the potential for sustainable tourism development in the area thus combines the environmental aspect of sustainable forms of tourism, with the identification of the most serious threats that need to be avoided to maintain the environment in the long-term. The results reveal the significant impact of excessive and inappropriate infrastructure and housing, as well as insufficient environmental education and legislation.
Highlights
Our assessment of the potential for sustainable tourism development in the area combines the environmental aspect of sustainable forms of tourism, with the identification of the most serious threats that need to be avoided to maintain the environment in the long-term
CHLAPEK ET AL. (2009) provide additional evidence of the negative impact downhill skiing has had in The Giant Mountains National Park (GMNAP) the Giant Mountains: the ski slopes significantly receives between five and six million tourists scar the landscape; it causes soil erosion, degenerates annually
The study area of the Giant Mountains includes the cadastral area of Harrachov, Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Špindlerův Mlýn, Pec pod Sněžkou and Janské Lázně; and is connected by a mountain range encompassing a total area of 216.15 km2
Summary
CHLAPEK ET AL. (2009) provide additional evidence of the negative impact downhill skiing has had in The Giant Mountains National Park (GMNAP) the Giant Mountains: the ski slopes significantly receives between five and six million tourists scar the landscape; it causes soil erosion, degenerates annually As the of local communities in his study about social sustainable approach aims to offer holistic and entrepreneurship in one of Mexico’s most popular long-term solutions to tourism development, it is destinations, the Tequila region (a designated inevitable that a transdisciplinary approach is UNESCO World Heritage Site) He concluded that adopted in order to maintain cultural integrity, the level of local poverty remained almost the conservation of essential ecological processes, same. IATU & BULAI (2010) discuss material and non-material approaches They include natural resources, cultural resources, tourism infrastructure and total infrastructure in the tourism potential equation and use multiple linear regressions to quantify tourist arrivals. MAMUN & MITRA (2012) point out that the multi-criteria decision-making technique has been used and applied in numerous studies
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