The area covered by protected areas in Poland amounts to 33,1% and this figure varies as far as single regions are concerned; the region with the highest percentage of areas covered by them is in the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship 62 %. There are 72 municipalities in the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship among which in 49 protected areas cover more than the half of the area. These areas are usually landscape parks and protected landscape areas. One of those 49 is the Nowy Korczyn municipality, covered by protected areas in 97%. This paper presents the conditions and courses of eco-development preferred by the inhabitants of the selected municipality in the Nadnidzianski Landscape Park. The research was based on inhabitants opinions concerning particular courses of development, i.e. tourism, services, handicraft, industry and small business, folk culture and art, agriculture, food processing, and wildlife protection. The results show that agriculture and food processing are the most preferred courses of development in the protected areas of the Nowy Korczyn municipality.