Brownfields and Tourism: Contributions and Barriers from the Point of View of Tourists
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Public recreation and landscape protection – with man hand in hand? Conference proceeding |
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| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | regeneration of brownfields; tourism; South Moravian Region; Czech Republic |
| Description | The paper pays attention to the relations between regeneration of brownfields and tourism. The first, theoretical part is focused on examining the relationships of both phenomena, in the second part the results of thematic questionnaire survey are presented. The survey with tourists was held in three locations in the South Moravian Region, where brownfields were regenerated for tourism. The contribution attempts to answer the research question - how visitors perceive regenerated brownfields that have found a new use in tourism. Respondents were asked for identification of types of brownfields that have the greatest potential for re-use in tourism and consequently, what tourists themselves prefer as the best possible re-use options in the studied regenerated brownfield sites. In the first case, the maximal potential was seen in the formerly industrial brownfields, less in agricultural brownfields; on the contrary the most problematic for tourism development brownfields originally used for housing were identified. In the second case, majority of respondents found a new use of the site for tourism as appropriate, however the return to the original function of former brownfields (industrial or agricultural production) is also strongly supported. In the final parts of the contribution, recommendations for potential investors in brownfields are formulated. |