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Aspects of Intensive Short Day Trips on the Remote Pelagic Location: Incorporating Visitor Survey, Radar Tracking and Environmental Risk Analysis in NATURA 2000 Monitoring of the Blue Cave, the Island of Biševo

The NATURA 2000 sites in the Adriatic Sea are large and complex areas with impaired and limited conservation implementation. Seasonally they are exposed to the intensive maritime traffic with significant day trip pressures visiting most attractive and sensitive locations. Inadequate management and planning of tourism and conservation often results in both diminished attractiveness for visitors and increased risks to the protected ecosystems. The location of case study presented is a remote attraction on a pelagic island. Blue Cave’s scenic beauty attracts day trips that have increased by almost seven folds in the last 15 years. This sudden boost caught the local economy in an overtourism spiral with risks being more evident as the visitor numbers grow. Risks are spatio-temporal, taking place in a very limited area and in narrow time frames. This chapter investigates aspects of intensive short-term visits (a couple of hours of sightseeing, field trips, excursions) to the sea cave as a significant regional and international attraction. In order to disclose a potential framework, the authors have used tools and methods across the following disciplines: maritime traffic monitoring, environmental risks analysis, visitor crowding perception. Authors are confident that described framework allows for more informed management and decision-making and urges for protected area management to be open to interdisciplinary research practices.

Maritime traffic monitoring ; Environmental risks analysis ; Visitor crowding perception ; Sea cave ; NATURA 2000 ; Heat mapping

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