Abstract
Tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors of the economy in Slovakia. With the orientation of localities to tourism, the landscape transformation is reflected in several positive and negative changes in the landscape. The aim of the contribution is to highlight the transformation processes leading to the creation of a tourist landscape in six selected localities in Slovakia. When selecting sites, we applied criteria such as the diversity of the original use, size or attractiveness. The environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of tourism on the landscape of localities were valuable in terms of sustainable development principles. From the methodological point of view, the primary methodology was the drivers–pressures–state–impact–response (DPSIR) model, used for integrated environmental assessment and the life cycle methodology of a tourism center with integrated sustainable development indicators. In the work results, based on the analysis of the historical development and the current state of localities, we evaluate their phase of the life cycle and the effects of tourism on the environment. We also present the possibilities of further development and heading direction of localities from point of view of tourism while pointing out the benefits and risks connected with the planned development.
Highlights
The landscape is the capital for tourism
We perceive a tourist landscape according to Gunn [4] as the total physical and visual environment utilized by all tourism activities, including the whole context and infrastructure of tourism development, such as transportation, services, information, direction and, generally speaking, all such developments that attract people to a destination
Landscape transformation is a typical process responding to anthropogenic needs and requirements
Summary
The landscape is the capital for tourism. In a country with attractiveness that can result from natural factors and is the result of people and their activities, tourism primarily develops. Consider it very important to know the impact of tourism on the landscape, even in areas that have begun to develop tourism relatively recently and embarked on the transformation process into a tourist landscape, and the possible contribution to the sustainable development of partial areas. In this context, we raise a research question: How is the transformation of the country into a recreational landscape in selected locations which have not been used primarily for tourism, and to what extent, in line with the requirements of sustainable development?. We will highlight the benefits and the risks associated with the planned development
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