The ‘Experience design and nature conservation via VIsitor MOnitoring and MAnagement in protected areas - VIMOMA’ project aims to connect researchers and relevant stakeholders to make protected areas more efficient in nature conservation and visitor management in both Visegrad (V4) and Western Balkans (WB) countries.

The natural environment brings a range of benefits, such as relaxation, recreation, health, and socialising. Natural areas have always been popular destinations all over the world; nevertheless, visitor numbers in natural areas are undergoing steady increases — especially more so as an outcome of the pandemic, which rendered people in distinct degrees of confinement for an extended period of time — and such a trend may easily lead to overloading sensitive areas.

Experience design and nature conservation via VIsitor MOnitoring and MAnagement in protected areas - VIMOMA (ceeweb.org)

One of the outputs of the project is a new guidebook for effective monitoring of visitors in protected and recreational areas which was designed as the result of mutual work of the project’s partners, experts as well as the protected areas representatives, who participated in the projects’ workshop. It is available now for download in 6 languages (Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, English). https://www.ceeweb.org/publication.php?id=838