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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   THE METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL ATTRACTIVENESS OF WATERFALLS AS TOURIST ATTRACTIONS.

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  Abstract:  The Methodology for Assessing the Potential Attractiveness of Waterfalls as Tourist Attractions. This paper analyzes how waterfalls, as natural tourism attractions, could be evaluated with different indicators with the use of several features in order to create a certain scale of attractiveness potential. The most common features used in waterfalls comparison is the height of the falls, the river discharge or the wide of the crest. For tourism rating, we can submit other features like: the location of the fall, the position regarding the route of access, waterfall type, the number of steps, etc. The most comprehensive system used today for waterfall rating was created by Richard H. Beisel Jr., which uses a natural logarithm of the water volume in order to obtain a value between 1 and 10. The values are then rounded to the nearest whole upper number to achieve ten classes. Our perspective for this rating has improved this system by adding some new features that can be useful for tourism rating: the angle of the slope, the transport infrastructure, the presence of marked trails, local establishments for accommodation, boat transportation, fishing activities, seasonality of the flow, the size and depth of plunge-pool, the cloud mist, etc. Also as a conclusion the paper contains a model individual form for waterfall evaluation.

Keywords: Waterfalls, tourism, potential attractiveness, BWR – Beisel waterfall rating, scenic and visual magnitude. 

 
         
     
         
         
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