Q5 - Environmental EconomicsReturn

Overtourism represents an increasingly pressing issue in numerous destinations worldwide, including protected natural areas. This article focuses on investigating the impacts of overtourism in the Jeseníky Protected Landscape Area (PLA) located in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. The aim of the study is to examine the current level and trends of tourist visitation in the Jeseníky PLA, to assess selected economic benefits of tourism in the region—particularly its impact on local businesses and public finances—and to identify the environmental and sociocultural negative effects of overtourism in the area. Furthermore, the article proposes measures for regulating visitor flows and promoting the sustainable development of tourism. The analysis draws on secondary data from the final report “Analysis of Visitation and the Impacts of Tourism in National Parks and Selected Protected Landscape Areas” (2024), as well as statistical data provided by the Czech Tourism agency. The dataset includes figures on the number of domestic and international tourists, length of stay, number of day visitors, and visitation rates of key tourist attractions. The applied methodology comprises analysis and synthesis of the available data, interpretation of the findings, and comparison with similar destinations. The article concludes by highlighting both the advantages and drawbacks of the overtourism phenomenon and proposes specific strategies to mitigate its negative impacts.

Since 2004, the Environmental Liability Directive No. 2004/35/EC is the basic document which has governed liability for damage to the natural environment in the European Union, as amended by subsequent regulation No. 2006/21/EC. The main purpose of the legislation was to ensure that the polluter responsible for the damage pays all costs for rectifying its consequences. If it concerns damage to the natural environment, the operator must undertake measures for rehabilitation, replacement and regeneration of damaged natural resources. Primary replacement, which returns damaged natural resources to their original state, may be differentiated from complementary replacement as compensation in the case in which primary replacement has not provided adequate reparation, and finally compensatory replacement - compensation for temporary loss of natural conditions.
This paper is focused on an analysis of specific presumptions about the insurability of risk as concerns environmental insurance. Scientific paper aims at an analysis of the environmental insurance as a possible mean for eliminating risks due to liability for environmental impairment caused by the actions of an operator whose activities potentially threaten the natural environment and may cause biodiversity damage. There is the EU approach described, and the current demand required by the Directive is explored with respect to its impact on the Czech conditions. Risks are assessed with regard to risk insurability criteria for potential damage to the natural environment. The importance of risk management is stressed in the sophisticated form known as Enterprise Risk Management. Risk management is becoming increasingly important with consistent quantification of obvious, hidden and potential risks.
The paper was written as part of research project MSM 6215648904, carried out by the Faculty of Business and Economics, under the name "The Czech Republic in the processes of integration and globalization, and the development of the agriculture and service sector in the new conditions of the integrated European market", following the goals and methodology of the research project.