Concepts for tourist development

A concept for tourist development is a planning document drawn up for a Forest District or a Promotional Forest Complex. On the one hand, the developed concept results in more knowledge about the most desirable locations and types of investments to be made in order to achieve the intended direction, concentration, dispersal, or extinction of tourist traffic. On the other hand, however, the concept informs about such areas where modification of forest management is advisable.

The concept optimally balances the current state of tourism and recreation in a forest district where developing activities in this area is needed and allows for targeted channelling of tourist traffic. The study enriches knowledge about the existing tourism infrastructure and takes into account the postulates of local self-government units, NGOs, and other entities interested in the development of tourism in the region, becoming the basis for joint activities and application for external funding.

The purpose of the concept is to collect and analyse information on natural objects, tourist infrastructure and to indicate the objectives and activities of the forest districts forming the Promotional Forest Complexes (LKP), as well as other organisations involved in the region’s development, including local government units.

The study is of an expert nature and should be used as a basis for further activities in building detailed projects and tourism products.

Its scope includes an analysis of the following issues:

• the spectrum of forest districts' activities in supporting and promoting tourism and educating the public;
• possibilities of cooperation of forest districts with local self-government units and tourism organisations in the field of education, recreation and tourism;
• identification of possibilities and ways to meet the expectations of the public by making recreational areas available with the help of tourism infrastructure;
• identifying the natural potential of the area in question in terms of determining the suitability of the land for its tourist function by analysing the conditions for the management of tourist traffic resulting from existing land use;
• indication of the way of further tourist development of the forest district area.