Uwarunkowania rozwoju turystyki aktywnej na obszarach wiejskich w polsko-białorusko-ukraińskim regionie transgranicznym

The aim of the article is to present opportunities for developing active tourism in rural areas of the Polish-Belarussian-Ukrainian cross-border region which covers Lubelskie Voivodeship and the following oblasts: Brest Oblast (Belarus), Lviv Oblast and Volyn Oblast (Ukraine). Starting from the specific tourist resources of the cross-border region, the potential directions of their utilisation have been included in The Strategy of the Cross-border Cooperation of Lublin Voivodeship, Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Brest Oblast for 2014-2020, focusing on the two forms of active tourism, i.e. water-based and cycle tourism. From the presented considerations, one may conclude that the foregoing utilisation of tourist values in the Polish-Belarussian-Ukrainian cross-border region is rather low. Due to the geopolitical conditions, initiatives concerning active tourism (i.a. water-based and cycle tourism) are usually not of cross-border nature, but they are rather located in the respective „national” parts, mostly in Lubelskie Voivodeship. Despite passing The Strategy of the Crossborder Cooperation of Lubelskie Voivodeship, Volyn Oblast, Lviv Oblast, and Brest Oblast for 2014-2020 and availability of financial resources, i.a. within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Instrument for 2014-2020, without any remarkable changes in the geopolitical conditions, which leads to greater freedom of movement of tourists through the external EU border – Polish-Belarussian and Polish-Ukrainian border, one should not expect any spectacular development in cross-border tourism, including its active forms