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Kierunki i bariery modernizacji ośrodków sportów zimowych w czeskim regionie turystycznym "Beskidy"

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Havrlant J.
Prace Geograficzne
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2011
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issue 125
PL
The article presents contemporary problems of the development of winter tourism and modernization of ski resorts in the Czech Beskids. Based on survey findings, tourists' opinions are presented regarding the condition of ski infrastructure, the services offered and actions necessary to be taken in order to improve the quality of recreation. Certain conflict situations have also been presented, which are encountered at the stage of planning and undertaking specific actions aiming at development in the sector of ski tourism. The region of the Czech Beskids is functionally tightly connected with the agglomeration of Ostrava, as it constitutes traditional recreational infrastructure for its inhabitants. There are 45 ski resorts located in this region. The highest-ranking resorts, which are of national significance, are the following: Bila, Kohútka and Pustevny. For a number of years, a dynamic development of regional resorts, Velké Karlovice-Soláň and Mosty u Jablunkova, has also been observed. The Bila and Pustevny resorts are located in the central area of the Moravian-Silesian Beskids; Kohútka and Velké Karlovice-Soláň are located in the Javorníky; and Mosty u Jablunkova - in the Silesian Beskids. The resort offering the best skiing infrastructure is the Ski Areál Bila resort. It comprises two ski areas, Bila and Mezivodí, which offer 9 ski lifts, whose total carrying capacity amounts to approximately 6750 persons per hour, and 8 downhill skiing routes, whose total length amounts to 6.2 kilometres. Moreover, there are nearly 60 kilometres of cross-country skiing routes in the area of Bila. Another ski resort found to offer good ski infrastructure is the Ski Areál Kohútka, thoroughly modernized in the 2009/2010 season. This resort is equipped with 6 ski lifts, whose total capacity is 5150 persons per hour, and 9 skiing routes whose total length is 6.6 kilometres. The Pustevny resort offers 9 ski lifts of total capacity of 5100 persons per hour, 3.6 kilometres of downhill skiing routes as well as 46 kilometres of well-maintained cross-country skiing routes. Tourists find the ski resorts in the Czech Beskids attractive and stress their potential to develop under the condition that these resorts are better-equipped with infrastructural facilities. Contemporary tourists seldom express only one reason, such as skiing, for their stay; instead, they expect a wider complementary offer, including relaxation, spa treatments, entertainment, etc. More attention ought to be paid not only to modernization of the basic skiing infrastructure and maintenance of skiing routes, but also to the extension of tourist infrastructure. The most serious social conflicts regarding the development of skiing in the Czech Beskids emerge from the creation of the natural conservation area - the CHKO Beskidy in a part of the region. There are also certain problems related to the ownership status of the land and the safety of utilization of the skiing areas. The Beskids are likely to become a region of international significance. Currently, the rate of foreign tourists coming for long-term recreational stays is relatively low; in the last decade foreign tourists have accounted for as little as a one fifth of hotel guests. Nevertheless, due to the improvement of the quality of skiing infrastructure and the undertaken marketing activities, the Beskid region may gain a more prominent position in the field of international tourism. The key tasks for the Czech Beskids are to revive relations with Poland and Slovakia regarding the modernization and coordination of tourist infrastructure and to cooperate more closely in the development of transborder information system. A condition necessary for proper development is the improvement of the quality of transport infrastructure and accessibility of Beskid recreation resorts. Undoubtedly, the area would benefit from the development of international "borderless" tourist ski resorts which would be located in the Czech-Slovak-Polish border mountain range and connect the resorts in neighbouring countries by ski lifts, e.g. Ustroń (Czantoria), Nydek, Wisła (Soszów, Stożek) and Jablunkov.
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Reclamation of devastated landscape in the Karviná region (Czech Republic)

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Havrlant J., Krtička L.
Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
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2014
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vol. 2
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issue 4
1-12
EN
The article deals with the recent positive changes in the industrial landscape of the Karviná region in a broader context. The Karviná region has been the most important part of the coal-bearing Ostrava-Karviná District. Since the industrial revolution, the position of the primary mining area has brought a dynamic economic development and a great concentration of population into the fast-growing conurbation cities, particularly between 1950s and 1980s. However, the dominant coal mining and processing has had a negative impact on the environment, the character and utilization of the landscape. Many environmental, socioeconomic and other problems did not become fully evident until the social changes at the turn of 1980s and 1990s. At present, a great attention is being paid to the reclamation of the affected landscape. As a result, the region is starting to change its unflattering image of an industrial and problematic area devastated by coal extraction for the better after many years. The various forms of land reclamation, modification of water bodies, construction of new sports and recreational facilities and so on are bringing a gradual improvement of the environment in the region, creating a new cultivated landscape that can be used, among other things, for various forms of tourism and relaxation.
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Třeboňsko na I. vojenském mapování

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Šimůnek R., Antoš F., Havrlant J.
Historická geografie (Historical Geography)
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2014
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vol. 40
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issue 2
153-204
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The First Military Survey offers an extraordinary insight into a landscape at the time just after the mid-18th century. This study has two basic objectives: 1) generally to point out the spectrum of possibilities, but also limitations of the testimony of the First Military Survey (map as well as written descriptions), and 2) use the example of Třeboň Region to demonstrate this spectrum, with its uniquely preserved agricultural cultural landscape, to which the results of the survey had not yet been more widely applied.
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