Around Cracow, extraction of rock material for building and road construction as well for chemical and steel industries developed on a large scale. With the establishment of the Jurassic Landscape Parks in this area, industry-scale exploration of rock material is permitted to continue within existing sites only until the developed rock deposits last. The author reviews possibilities to use old extraction sites for tourist and recreational purposes, taking Zakrzówek (situated within the administrative boundaries of Cracow) and Czatkowice (to the north of Krzeszowice) quarries as examples.
A program for developing tourism in a given area is based on appraisal of its attractiveness. It includes guidelines derived from the features and interactions of all environmental factors. Such an appraisal covers a variety of aspects and various impacts of tourists on the environment and vice versa are reviewed. Taking planning decisions and formulating tourism investment projects are based on a series of subsequent approximations by reviewing maps with increasing scales. Climate, land relief water, vegetation, availability of transport and public demand for recreation are the main factors taken into account in evaluating attractiveness and the value in terms of tourism.