National Parks Under Pressure...
National Parks are coming under increasing pressure from the sheer number of visitors and it doesn't help that 90 per-cent use cars and concentrate on a relatively small number of locations...
Posted: 16 April 2003
by Jon
We just thought we'd draw your attention to an interesting
article in today's Guardian Society section about the increasing
pressure of visitor numbers on National Parks.
The piece highlights the plight of the Peak District and the
proposal to introduce toll access to the Upper Derwent Valley near
Ladybower before looking at other parks.
"It's a case of too many tourists loving the place to death,'
comments Peter Ogden, the planning policy officer of the Snowdonia
National Park. 'They're killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'
Whatever that means.
Meanwhile, the Northumbria National Park actually wants more
visitors to sustain a fledgling tourism industry that was seriously
damaged by foot and mouth. The twin problems, the article concludes
are that visitors are concentrated in a few honeypot areas of the
Parks, while great swathes of them are ignored and that 90 per-cent
of visitors still travel by car both to and within National
Parks.
Interesting reading, and not on the web site yet, we'll post a
link if it appears.
Discuss this story
Too many visitors, too many cars, too few concentrated honeypot locations. Is it just inevitable or should we be doing something about it? How many of those visitors ever walk more than 400 yards from their cars? Whose parks are they anyway? And it's Easter too....
Posted: 16/04/2003 at 09:26
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