Summary:

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the Warmia and Mazury voivodship. However, unsustainable tourism is not environmentally neutral. The increasing trend in the tourism industry to obtain the maximum benefit from tourism industry to fight for each area of interest for tourists. Very rarely remembers the obligation to care for the preservation of the environment. Are caused by damage, which often have irreversible consequences.The attention to maintaining high environmental values requires a coherent and consistent policy environment. It is also important to ensure access to environmental information and environmental education. Degradation caused by the escalation in tourism, should be an incentive for action in the areas of forecasting and environmental planning and setting tools that enforce implementation of sustainable tourism development. Control impacts of tourism on the environment should take into account the behavior of small scale tourism, especially in the areas of high natural value.The study contains the determinants of tourism development area and the risks to the environment arising from the implementation of tourism and non-compliance with the principles of sustainable development. Based on the analysis of available literature sources has attempted to identify strategic objectives were identified in the tasks to be performed, for the protection of the environment in the Warmia and Mazury.