DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0264

Quantitative visitor monitoring results application

Ondřej Vítek

The Czech Nature Conservation Agency collects visitor-monitoring data through automated counters since 2009. Contracting as well as data management have been centralised, harmonised, and made available for all employees as well as for partners. The profiles in protected areas are of various character, from roads to tiny paths with restricted access, from vehicles through cyclists to walkers and canoes.
Visitor monitoring data is valued source of information. Accurate data is utilised as an undisputable argument. Long-term profiles show overall trends in tourism and can detect changes e.g. during Covid-19 pandemic as well as before and after a lookout tower construction. Counters on paths with restricted access can help to evaluate effects of various measures. Oscillations within an average day, week as well as year can help planning visitor centre operating hours, ranger service, and construction works. Total and maximum numbers on trails help define necessary parameters of visitor infrastructure. Real numbers of vehicle traffic can evaluate the policy of issuing vehicle entry permits. Damages on nature can be compared with counter data to determine if visits are the cause.

Klíčová slova: automated counters, quantitative monitoring

stránky: 264-267, Publikováno: 2022, online: 2022