Additionally, on a meta level, no quality standards for collecting visitor use data in Germany
or Austria currently exist, thus making it impossible to guarantee standardized methods
for visitor counts (Sievänen et al. 2008), while standardized approaches are used,
for example, by the US Forest Service. One additional crucial point is the long-term perspective.
While in the United States the management frameworks require long-term monitoring efforts
regarding social aspects, in most of the Central European countries this long-term perspective
is not taken; long-term monitoring is applied only for ecological issues.