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River, dam, and lake banks are often attractive as a holiday destination for both domestic and overseas visitors. Therefore, different water based activities including water sports centres, as well as walking and cycling routes adjacent to water bodies require clean and environmentally green water. The places of greatest tourism significance need to be determined and their vulnerability to water quality is indisputable. It is in close connection to the pollution of water. Nowadays, the number of polluters of the H...

In recent decades, the scientific and educational tourism has grown in popularity. The experience gained in field trips and expeditions around Western Mongolia suggests that this area has diverse natural conditions, interesting and unique monuments of nature and archeology including a high potential for making research and educational excursions. The analysis of current and perspective trends of recreational flow in Khovd aimag, Western Mongolia allows to identify five basic spatial-thematic routes combined into t...

The interest in sustainable economic development, with all the financial benefits arising from it, is a priority to the objectives of protection in Natura 2000 sites. To highlight the antithesis between the protection objectives and the desire for economic development of this space, we used the Markov model. The data used for the analysis were the boundaries of the Natura 2000 sites and the information provided by Corine Land Cover data set from 2006 (the year prior to the establishment of these sites) and 2012. B...