Riverside Tourism in an Urban Area – How Can It Work?

Riečny turizmus v mestskej oblasti - Ako to môže fungovať?

Alžbeta Kiráľová, Iveta Hamarneh

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 20, Číslo (Issue) 2, 2016, p. 507-522, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2016.20.2.507-522

Abstract

Tourism is attracted to urban areas mostly as a result of the built cultural heritage, urban amenities, lifestyle, cultural traditions, and cultural events. An increasing number of visitors often led to inconvenience for residents and can affect the value of the historic site. Prague is the most visited destination in the Czech Republic. Sustainable development and involvement of the riverside area are from this aspect one of the ways how to relieve the heavily visited World Heritage Area from visitors. Indicators as Tourist density rate, Defert’s tourist function index, Index of a territorial density of tourism, Tourist penetration rate, Tourism intensity, and Tourism intensity rate were calculated to detect the current state of the intensity of visitors flow in the protected area. Literature review, content analysis of documents, interviews, Community Engaged Mapping, Asset Mapping, and Community Transect Walk been conducted to determine the destinations´ attractiveness potential.

Keywords: Prague, Vltava River, sustainable development, urban tourism, riverside tourism, diversification

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