Attitudes of Prášily inhabitants

Questionnaire - perception of the Prášily inhabitants

Autumn 2015 (Martin Zahradník)

Overview of results (16 repondents - local inhabitants):

Q 8. What is needed here primarily to develop so that the village is as you want it?

Public spaces, sports facilities and services

• In winter - to create an ice rink, ski lift for children. For the summer - to create sports places.
• Area for sports recreation (swimming in summer, missing ski lift for skiers - Prášily visitors, lack of sports fields for youth)
• A new water area, treatment of trees in the village
• facilities for visitors, Sport + Leisure for citizens (barn)
• Development of infrastructure for local residents; competition in the field of tourism services; Sport, culture
• promotion of tourism, public transport.
• infrastructure for visitors - benches, rest areas
• an exhibition on Bohemian countryside, architecture
• setting up a public toilet

Q 9. What do you consider the advantages of the village for its development in the next 5 years?

The surrounding countryside, NP and the interest of tourists (assets)

• nature
• location in an attractive location with the possibility to sensitively promote tourism and hence the emphasis on conservation.
• exceptional location in Sumava National Park
• surrounding countryside
• location of the village in the National Park.
• convenient location in the Šumava National Park.
• Location, history
• High tourist interest.

Q 10. And on the contrary, what do you consider the greatest risk of developing the village?

Uncontrolled development and construction insensitive tourism

• Building boom
• large development projects
• change of the development plan “on purpose”; further construction of apartments
• Any change in the development plan with the intention of unduly expanding residential construction
• insensitive development projects (housing)
• Inappropriate housing development and thus the pressure on poorly managed tourism.
• appartment housing for tourists
• Further housing development and bulding on the land of the only one cultural monument.
• Allowing wild village development of non-residential buildings. NO! to the black constructions and expansion of built-up area outside the village for recreational buildings.
• monopolization; increase in activities leading to the creation of the Prášily "Disnayland"
• Do not allow more housing projects than currently approved.
• one-sided focus on tourism; promotion of “hidden interests”

Other

• promoting personal interests at the expense of public ones
• clear-cut harvesting in forests
• Cancellation of the post-office
• immoral behavior + oligarchisation of the Prášily village.