{"id":73,"date":"2025-05-14T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172.16.34.18:8809\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:03:52","slug":"tourism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/best-soil-management-practices\/tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">TOURISM: Examples of Sustainable Cross-Sectoral Soil Management<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:0px;grid-template-columns:42% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-14-143822-e1761636673979.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-14-143822-e1761636673979.png 496w, https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-14-143822-e1761636673979-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The main focus of <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-kubio-color-6-color\"><strong>IT case studies<\/strong>&nbsp;on joining mountain agriculture, tourism and water quality, is on soil protection activities on mountain pastures\/ski areas and assessement of soil properties, geomorphology and natural hazards. Soil data are interpreted and made applicable for improved management of dual mountain sites (e.g. ski slopes). Results are transferred into management plans and discussed with e.g. ski-area managers (observers).<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"214\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1133\" style=\"border-radius:39px;box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png 530w, https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7-500x202.png 500w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Transferring Soil Case Study Results to Management Plans: Transnational Exchange on Best Practice Solutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-kubio-color-6-color\"><strong>Guidelines for sustainable management practices on ski slopes<\/strong> are crucial, considering winter and summer tourism, which has strongly influenced and in some areas devalued the typical highland\/mountainous landscape. Loss of vegetation cover, erosion and landslides are forms of ecological damage caused by winter and summer sports activities. Construction of new ski lifts, expanding ski areas and the side effects of snow grooming machines are just a few of the negative impacts that tamper with the ecology of wilderness areas in the long run.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-kubio-color-6-color\">These guidelines collect the current state of knowledge about the soil good management practices applied in ski areas. The aim is to provide a useful and practical tool that may allow sustainable soil management, favoring the mitigation of impacts caused by the construction and management of ski runs and related facilities.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"df_2375\"  _slug=\"ski-runs-2020-def\" data-title=\"ski-runs-2020-def\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><script class=\"df-shortcode-script\" nowprocket type=\"application\/javascript\">window.option_df_2375 = {\"outline\":[],\"backgroundColor\":\"#fff8eb\",\"autoEnableOutline\":\"false\",\"autoEnableThumbnail\":\"false\",\"overwritePDFOutline\":\"false\",\"direction\":\"1\",\"pageSize\":\"0\",\"source\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.alpinesoils.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/Ski-runs-2020-DEF.pdf\",\"wpOptions\":\"true\"}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();}<\/script>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Examples from our best practices, elaborated together with our stakeholders in order to raise awareness on challenges in the Alpine tourism sector:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CS6_Soil education trails in Austria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CS8_Revegetation of degraded areas in the French Alps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CS14_Research for a sustainable ski-run soil management; Valle d\u2019Aosta, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CS15_Environmental management of the Skilifte Lech<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CS16_Management practices on ski slopes Vogel and Kranjska Gora (Slovenia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CS17_Managing ski area Schmitten (Austria)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"df_2390\"  _slug=\"best-practices-tourism\" data-title=\"best-practices-tourism\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><script class=\"df-shortcode-script\" nowprocket type=\"application\/javascript\">window.option_df_2390 = {\"outline\":[],\"backgroundColor\":\"#fff8eb\",\"autoEnableOutline\":\"false\",\"autoEnableThumbnail\":\"false\",\"overwritePDFOutline\":\"false\",\"direction\":\"1\",\"pageSize\":\"0\",\"source\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.alpinesoils.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/Best-practices-TOURISM-1.pdf\",\"wpOptions\":\"true\"}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();}<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOURISM: Examples of Sustainable Cross-Sectoral Soil Management Transferring Soil Case Study Results to Management Plans: Transnational Exchange on Best Practice Solutions Guidelines for sustainable management practices on ski slopes are crucial, considering winter and summer tourism, which has strongly influenced and in some areas devalued the typical highland\/mountainous landscape. 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