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People have appreciated the beauty of natural landscapes, the result of the interplay of different natural processes, for at least three hundred years in Europe. Many have been inspired by this beauty to promote such places for visits by others. Some have understood the importance of individual places visited within the local or regional environmental system. This has led to definitions and the establishment of protected areas with special visitor rules and regulations. This article presents a case study of Sićevo Gorge Nature Park in Serbia and an opportunity to transform it into a geoheritage site, underpinned by developing its interpretation based on the results of a study using the analytical-hierarchy process (AHP) method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines and reflects on GIS approach in management of environmental impacts of tourism. We stress that the focus is on National park Berchtesgaden as a case study for this research, and accept at the outset that the approaches discussed are necessarily partial and would only form part of a wider sustainability assessment. However, we argue that the selected approaches are useful in assisting with the different organizational challenges and questions facing nature protected area managers who wish to understand the environmental consequences of tourism. Environmental impacts are analyzed through their indicators. The paper shows how GIS has been used to assess the environmental impacts of tourism in the National park Berchtesgaden, and then examines overlapping of layers and input of environmental indicators to provide useful insights into understanding the environmental effects of tourism within the nature protected area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to develop a new perspective on urban tourist motivations and demotivation's by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model in order to better understand how tourists make decisions about which destinations to visit. Authors discovered that most important factor within city break travel is internal force, followed by the external force and least important is demotivation. The paper argues that the results indicate the value of applying the AHP model to understand the role and importance both of push and pull factors and demotivators in urban tourism destination choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]