CARRYING CAPACITY ASSESSMENT OF SLOVENE ISTRIA FOR TOURISM

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CARRYING CAPACITY ASSESSMENT OF SLOVENE ISTRIA
FOR TOURISM

• Igor Jurincic
• University of Primorska
• College of Tourism Portoro, Slovenia

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Development of tourism demands careful planning

• The environmental impact of tourism is harmful
  and has frequently been uncoordinated with other
  users of the land
• Tourism development has been often led by
  individual investors who put profitability in the
  first place
• Such tourism development can damage the
  reputation of a destination

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To avoid such serious consequences

• tourism development potentials have to be
  periodically assessed
• prompt and integrated spatial planning
• implementing the principles of sustainable
  tourism
• take into consideration the results of carrying
  capacity analysis

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Hypothesis

• The carrying capacity analysis (CCA) method is a
  suitable tool for the prevention of saturation in
  a tourist destination as well as for the
  implementation of sustainable tourism development
  in a region.
• The tourism industry which ignores the carrying
  capacity of the region in a long term jeopardizes
  its development or even existence and makes a
  negative impact on the overall development of the
  region

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Carrying capacity indicators for tourism divided
into three groups

• spatial - ecological
  beaches (sq m of beaches), sea water quality,
  potable water quality, solid waste collection and
  treatment, air quality and parks and green areas
  (quantity, condition)

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• infrastructural
  accommodation capacity, potable water quantity,
  sewage disposal, road traffic, car parks, railway
  transport, sea transport, marinas and moorings
  and air traffic
• sociological - psychological
  local inhabitant satisfaction with tourism and
  overall tourist satisfaction

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Each indicator has been evaluated

• not exceeded,
• unsustainable
• exceeded.

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Analyzing 17 key indicators of carrying capacity
in the region

• 5 indicators (29) exceed the capacity limit,
• 8 indicators (47) the carrying capacity is
  unsustainable and
• 4 indicators (24) do not exceed the capacity
  limit.

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Carrying capacity has been exceeded

• sewage disposal (the weakest indicator - no
  more than 18,000 tourists),
• car parks,
• road traffic,
• marinas and moorings and
• air traffic

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Increasing the capacity of indicators
demonstrating unsustainable carrying capacity

• beaches,
• sea water quality,
• solid waste disposal,
• parks and green areas,
• potable water quantity,
• railway transport,
• satisfaction of inhabitants with the effects of
  tourism and
• overall satisfaction of tourists.

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Improve the exploitation of capacities of the
indicators which the carrying capacity is not
exceeded

• potable water quality,
• air quality,
• accommodation capacity and
• transport by sea

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