Abstract
The protected natural areas play an important role in recreation. This paper discusses the issue of recreational activities in these areas. The National Park and Protected Landscape Areas in the southern part of the Czech Republic were selected for the purposes of illustration. It has been revealed that relaxation is the most important activity among tourists in the large-area protected natural territories, according to a recent survey of 1,500 participants. Entertainment is the second most important activity. Recreational sport activities (such as swimming, tennis, etc.) are respectively in the third and fourth places. We can talk about the large-area protected natural reservations as destinations for “nature-based tourism”, whose prerequisite is the existence of a pristine natural environment, which is primarily bound to protected natural areas in today’s world, and it is not for sustainable tourism. According to the participation in recreation activities, four segments of demand have been identified in visits to these large-area protected natural territories: (1) passive visitors, (2) visitors focused on exploring but not participating in any physical activity, (3) active visitors with a dominant interest in bicycle touring, and (4) active visitors with a dominant interest in history.
Highlights
The pleasure periphery belongs to the most important spaces for recreation and tourism (Newsome et al, 2013)
It represents tourism that is conditioned by the existence of a natural environment that is, in today’s world, primarily bound to protected natural areas
As to the third and the fourth places are concerned, we can speak of largearea protected natural territories as being destinations for “nature-based tourism”, which is conditioned by the existence of the natural environment, which is primarily bound to the protected natural areas, and not for ecotourism
Summary
The pleasure periphery (in the sense of the wilderness and national parks according to Hall and Page, 2006) belongs to the most important spaces for recreation and tourism (Newsome et al, 2013). These two activities “have increasingly become significant as one of the main values attached to the wilderness and its RESEARCH PAPER conservation” (Hall and Page 2006: 278). Tourists (as the main visitors to such environments) are the keystones of the appropriate planning management of the protected areas (Ogonowska and Torre, 2013) and elsewhere (Borges et al, 2014)
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