The concept of tourist-recreation management of eastern part of “Krzywińsko-Osiecki” landscape protected area

key words: tourist function’s indexes, natural-landscape valorization, tourist-leisure management, landscape protected area, GIS tools

Summary:

Eastern part of "Krzywińsko-Osiecki" Landscape Protected Area is located in central part of Wielkopolska. The land use of analyzed area is dominated by arable lands, smaller area is covered by forests. The aim of present study was to determine the current state of tourism development in Borek Wielkopolski and Piaski communes, as well as to evaluate the nature-cultural values of eastern part of "Krzywińsko-Osiecki" Landscape Protected Area. Afterwards the possibilities of tourism management were designed based on above mentioned analyses. For this purposes the calculation of tourist function's indexes, creation the map of valorization and the concept of tourism and recreation development with the aid of GIS tools were performed. The obtained results revealed, that tourist activity at Borek Wielkopolski and Piaski communes area is very low. However, eastern part of "Krzywińsko-Osiecki" Landscape Protected Area is characterized by a diversity of natural-landscape values. The proposed activities would influence on better recognition of natural values and increase of tourism attractiveness of analyzed area. Two tourist trails were proposed, as well as recreation development of water reservoir in Jeżewo and improvement of existing tourist infrastructure.

Citation:

Lisiak M., Borowiak K., Wierzbicka J. 2016, vol. 13. The concept of tourist-recreation management of eastern part of “Krzywińsko-Osiecki” landscape protected area. Infrastruktura i Ekologia Terenów Wiejskich. Nr 2016, vol. 13/ III (1 (Jun 2016))