INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ON THE WATER TOURISM ROUTES

Increasing water tourism popularity and importance of active tourism sources in Nature make us to give more engineering experience into development of active tourism infrastructure. The lack of infrastructure near rivers and lakes, lack of tourism development system for regional and national planning purposes reflects in to water tourist damaging country image. The article presents application of engineering experience into practical problems solution, using project “Special Plan for National Water Tourism Routes”. Engineering based water tourism infrastructure – camp places, stopping places, rest places near water routes will be sign of friendly water tourist environment for local and foreign tourists. The article is focused on the explanation of existing situation based on water tourism popularity, boat and kayak tenancy business and marketing. Using survey research analysis results, the article itemizes tourist’s needs and evaluates infrastructure committed to them. Engineering infrastructure solutions, offered in it, allows to establish infrastructure near the water deposits, thus minimizing damage, imposed by water tourism, and increasing possibilities for active tourism in Lithuania. This article assign the examples of problematic situations from nowadays and bring the possible solutions.