Transnational monitoring strategy to monitor tourism impacts on the environment in conservation areas

This transnational monitoring strategy proposes a framework for the development, testing, and evaluation of a monitoring system that supports visitor management activities of pilot sites within the INTERREG Central Europe project HUMANITA.

The main goal of the INTERREG CE project HUMANITA is to produce a proposal for a more complex monitoring system for conservation areas (CAs) in regard to environmental impacts of outdoor tourism on natural assets. Together, project participants test different innovative monitoring methods and approaches. Our results and analyses will enable us to draw up policy recommendations and develop local action plans for pilot sites in five regions: Bükk National Park in Hungary, Mala Fatra National Park in Slovakia, Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park in Italy, Significant landscape Lower Kamenjak and the Medulin Archipelago in Croatia and Karawanken-Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark on the border between Austria and Slovenia.