Abstract
This paper is focused on multiple land use planning in rural areas exemplified with outdoor recreation in the Netherlands.
Planning for outdoor recreation is done within the physical planning system. Plans for outdoor recreation facilities on the provincial level should fit into the national policy of outdoor recreation. Provinces only can plan those facilities that are made possible on the national level. Municipalities or outdoor recreation districts have to make concrete planswhich fit into the higher levels.
Outdoor recreation forms also part of the land consolidation programs and the reclamations. The planning of outdoor recreation facilities is found to be very important. There is a large demand for facilities related to water and beaches as well as day-and stay-recreltion facilities on the land itself.
Public bodies keep a responsibility of planning, creatind and managing of outdoor recreation facilities because of hardness to make profitable. However several outdoor recreation activities are made profitable and therefor managed by private entrepreneurs. At the moment many studies and negotiations are under way to increase the private sector in outdoor recreation.
