期刊
JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION AND TOURISM-RESEARCH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
卷 3-4, 期 -, 页码 57-67出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2013.09.004
关键词
Hiking trails; Condition scale; Tourism environmental impact; GIS; Iceland
资金
- Icelandic Tourist Board
- Ministry of Industry and Innovation
Nature based tourism in the fragile Arctic environments is emerging as a major environmental concern, mainly due to extreme seasonality in these locations, the lack of suitable infrastructures and planning, and its interference with fragile ecosystems. In Iceland tourism has increased exponentially during the past decades, causing more environmental impacts on the country's natural recourses. Hiking is one of the most popular tourist activities in Iceland, especially in the interior highlands. This study had two goals: to map the current status or hiking trail conditions in two popular tourist destinations or the southern highlands, Porsmork and Fjallabak Nature Reserve (FNR); and to examine the relationship between trail condition assessment and local physical properties, such as elevation, gradient, soil type, and vegetation cover, in GIS. The current status of the hiking trails is much worse in the horsmiirk area, where over 30% of the trail system is classified as being in bad and very bad condition, compared to 12% for the FNR. Of the analyzed physical properties only elevation has a clear relationship with hiking trail condition in both study sites and gradient in the Porsmork area. Importantly, severe conditions never apply to a whole trail, suggesting that trail conditions are a function of trampling magnitude and local physical properties. Hence, when maintaining hiking trails in vulnerable environments, such as the Icelandic highlands, a holistic understanding of the environmental impact of trampling is critical.
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