Rating of touristic traffic in Knyszyn Forest Landscape Park

Celem niniejszego opracowania jest ocena ilościowa oraz jakościowa ruchu turystycznego w Parku Krajobrazowym Puszczy Knyszyńskiej.Researches on tourist traffic in landscape parks is very important, due to the level conservation level of the areas, and because of the educational and recreational functions accessible to the society, especially to the young people. The elaboration presents a qualitative and quantitative study of touristic traffic in Knyszyn Forest Landscape Park, between 1989-2010. The analysis of the data shows that this protected area was visited by 72 989 tourists over 22 years. Generally the number of visitors there is rising, and the largest group of the visitors are children. It has been noted, that there is a big quantitative variation between respective sociological segments of tourists. It follows a need to deepen research, standardize methodology of the research on tourist traffic in landscape parks