publication . Article . Journal . 2018

Visitor profiling for cable car mountain destinations as a basis for protected area management: a case study of the summer season in the Tatra Mountains at Kasprowy Wierch (Poland) and Skalnaté Pleso (Slovakia)

Name: Visitor profiling for cable car mountain destinations as a basis for protected area management: a case study of the summer season in the Tatra Mountains at Kasprowy Wierch (Poland) and Skalnaté Pleso (Slovakia)
Keywords: protected area, tourism, visitor profiling, segmentation, social marketing, cable car, Tatra National Park, Carpathian Mountains, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, 570,protected area, tourism, visitor profiling, segmentation, social marketing, cable car, Tatra National Park, Carpathian Mountains,Geography, Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geography (General), G1-922

Karolina Taczanowska; Jarosław Balon; Joanna Hibner; Antoni Zięba; Andreas Muhar; Christiane Brandenburg;

Open Access English

Published: 09 Jan 2018

Summary

Abstract

Protected areas play a crucial role in the conservation of vulnerable mountain ecosystems, but at the same time they may serve as tourist destinations and attract large numbers of visitors. Areas located in close proximity to cable cars belong to some of the most challenging sites for mountain protected area management. This study focuses on two cable car areas: Kasprowy Wierch (Tatra National Park, Poland) and Skalnaté Pleso (Tatra National Park, Slovakia). Both sites belong to the most heavily used leisure destinations in the Tatra Mountains. The study focused on the summer, snow-free tourist peak-season, for which there is an ongoing discussion concerning the...

doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-10-1s24

Subjects

free text keywords: protected area, tourism, visitor profiling, segmentation, social marketing, cable car, Tatra National Park, Carpathian Mountains, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, 570,protected area, tourism, visitor profiling, segmentation, social marketing, cable car, Tatra National Park, Carpathian Mountains,Geography, Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geography (General), G1-922, Geography, Physical geography, Visitor pattern, Destinations, Summer season

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