The Łęczyńsko-Włodawskie Lake District is one of the main tourist regions of Eastern Poland. The main form of tourism is here mass tourism, based on the use of lakes’ shores. The article presents the results of surveys conducted on a group of 850 people rested on the most attractive lakes of area. The issues were mainly related to motives of arrival, ways of spending time and the assessment of tourist attractiveness of the area and the tourist infrastructure. The results indicate a high appreciation of the natural values of the area by tourists. Tourists perceived both positive and negative impacts of tourism development.
The aim of this study is to analyze the degree of impact of different forms of tourist infrastructure on the natural environment of the riparian zone of Białe Lake. The spatial variation of the index of impact on environment was calculated (MIKA 2004, FURGAŁA et al. 2010) depending on the distance from the shoreline. The analysis was carried out in fixed minimal mapping units and in the buffer zones with segmentation based on shoreline type criterion and distance from the lake.