Published : 2015-02-23

Condition and Perspectives of Educational Environmental Tourism in Roztocze in the Context of the Hands-On Activity Strategy

Teresa Brzezińska-Wójcik



Andrzej Świeca



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The cognitive component of environmental tourism reflects the relation between tourism and education, irrespective of the purpose of travel or individual benefits for the tourist. The unique natural values of Roztocze provides a very rich basis for educational tourism. This paper attempts to evaluate the current offer in the scope of educational tourism, geotourism, sylvan tourism, aviotourism and apitourism in Roztocze. It also presents the possibilities of application of the hands-on activity strategy in products of environmental tourism in terms of their development or diversification. The objective was implemented by means of the following methods: desk research, elimination, historical analysis and analysis of possibilities of development, as well as field inventory and interview with the organisers of the products. The Roztocze National Park is of particular importance for the development of the educational environmental tourism. In the Roztocze National Park offer, it combines the cognitivism with sensory and emotional experiences. The geotourism aspect is represented by linear (educational trails and paths ), local products (museums ), and item products (maps ). Sylvan tourism is supported by didactic paths in the state forests of Roztocze. Apitourism is the youngest form of environmental tourism in Roztocze region. The application of the hands-on activity strategy is one of the conditions necessary in the interpretation of the environmental heritage in the era of new trends, namely 3 E, 4 H, or REAL travel. The results of the analysis of the functioning tourist products in Roztocze reveal its elements present in some of them. The obtained results suggest that extensive possibilities in the scope exist in the area of the Roztocze National Park, as well as in the scope of products such as: the Educational Trail “DINOZAURY Krasnobród,” Geotourist Trail of the Middle Roztocze, or bee farm Ulik. It seems that the application of the hands-on activity strategy in the development/supplementation of tourist products in Roztocze will allow the participants/visitors to benefit from such products in an efficient and valuable way. It may also provide the basis for the further economic activisation of the region.

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education, natural tourism, hands-on activity strategy, Roztocze Region (Poland)



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Brzezińska-Wójcik, T., & Świeca, A. (2015). Condition and Perspectives of Educational Environmental Tourism in Roztocze in the Context of the Hands-On Activity Strategy. Regional Barometer. Analyses & Prognoses, 12(4), 123–132. https://doi.org/10.56583/br.990

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