Visitor Monitoring in the Danube Floodplains National Park

The Danube Floodplains National Park is nestled in a dynamic development area between the cities of Vienna and Bratislava. The increase in settlement activity and the associated population growth are putting pressure on the remaining natural areas. The Danube Floodplains National Park, part of which is located in the Vienna city area (Lobau), is particularly affected by this. With the increase in visitor pressure and the number of visitors, visitor management measures must therefore be evaluated and, if necessary, adapted or changed. The last systematic visitor survey in the national park took place from 1998 to 2001. Based on the visitor monitoring study conducted between 1998 and 2001, visitor counts and surveys will be carried out at approximately 30 locations in the Vienna and Lower Austrian parts of the Donau-Auen National Park. Through the combined use of permanent counting devices and periodic counts by counters at predefined locations, the temporal and spatial visitor flows in the Donau-Auen National Park will be recorded over a period of one year.