A Functioning Model for Large-Scale Protected Areas in Roztocze in the Context of Sustainable Tourism

Teresa Brzezińska-Wójcik () and Ewa Skowronek
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Teresa Brzezińska-Wójcik: Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-718 Lublin, Poland
Ewa Skowronek: Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-718 Lublin, Poland

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 16, 1-25

Abstract: This paper contributes to the research into the sustainable development of tourism. It analyses large-scale protected areas (one national park, four landscape parks, two protected landscape areas) located in the Roztocze region, at the SE border of Poland, which are most exposed to tourist movement overload due to their attractiveness. The study presents a proposal for a research procedure based on the method of multidimensional comparative analysis, which facilitates interpretation of the state of tourism function by calculation of the values of indicators of tourism potential and function. The result of the study is a model. It shows that with the exception of the National Park, the current state of tourism can be described as sustainable in most of the analysed areas. In addition to their scientific value, the results obtained may have a practical dimension, as they indicate specific factors causing the loss of balance in the environment, which should be monitored or addressed by stakeholders (government, local authorities, entrepreneurs, local communities), leading to the maintenance of sustainable tourism development in a specific area. The procedure proposed in the study can be applied to any other naturally and culturally valuable area.

Keywords: Roztocze National Park; Szczebrzeszyn Landscape Park; Krasnobród Landscape Park; Puszcza Solska Landscape Park; South Roztocze Landscape Park; Roztocze Protected Landscape Area; tourism potential; tourism function; method of multidimensional comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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