Visitor monitoring in the Gesäuse National Park 2008

The National Park Gesäuse GmbH commissioned the Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Nature Conservation at the University of Natural Resources in February 2008 to carry out a visitor monitoring in the Gesäuse National Park. These surveys are intended to provide a basis for the visitor management concept developed by Zechner (2007) for the Gesäuse National Park. In order to be able to implement efficient management measures, concrete knowledge of the Visitor quantity, composition, structure, distribution and also about attitudes, motifs and characteristics of visitors are necessary. For this purpose, visitor surveys and visitor censuses were carried out in the winter months from 2007 to 2008 and in the summer months 2008. The main objectives of the project were the initial reception of visitor structures, the recording of the role of the national park for the visit, the recording of the acceptance of management measures, the comparison of visitor structures from the winter with that of the summer, the creation of indicators on recovery quality as a contribution to the visitor guidance concept (based on the Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) framework), the creation of basic principles for a projected overall visitor narrative and the creation of a comparative basis for subsequent surveys to identify changes in the visitor structure. The resulting contents of visitor monitoring were fir development of a detailed concept for visitor monitoring in 2008, the fixing of the survey sites through joint on-site inspections, the determination of the survey processes (counts, surveys), the definition of questionnaire content and indicators on recovery quality and the presentation for the continuation of visitor monitoring in 2009. Note: an abbreviated version is available as a publication on the web (see web link)2008年2月，格塞斯国家公园有限责任公司（National Park Gesäuse GmbH）委托自然资源大学景观发展、休闲与自然保护研究所，开展格塞斯国家公园游客监测工作。 本次调研旨在为泽希纳（Zechner）2007年为格塞斯国家公园制定的游客管理理念提供支撑。为高效落实各项管理举措，需掌握游客的具体数量、构成、结构、分布，以及游客的态度、出行动机与群体特征等详实信息。为此，项目组于2007至2008年冬季及2008年夏季开展了游客问卷调查与游客普查工作。 本项目的核心目标包括：初步厘清游客群体结构特征，记录国家公园在游客出行中的角色定位，调研游客对各类管理举措的接受程度，对比冬夏两季的游客结构差异，基于游客体验与资源保护（Visitor Experience and Resource Protection, VERP）框架构建恢复质量指标体系以支撑游客引导理念的优化，为规划中的全域游客叙事框架制定基本原则，以及为后续监测游客结构变化的调研搭建对比基准。 本次游客监测工作形成的成果包括：2008年游客监测详细方案的制定，通过联合现场踏勘确定调研点位，明确调研流程（含计数与问卷调查环节），界定问卷内容与恢复质量指标体系，以及提出2009年延续游客监测工作的实施方案。 注：网络上可获取该报告的精简版（详见网页链接）。