One of the objectives of RMK is to offer outdoor recreational possibilities and introduce sites of protection value through the nature tourism system based on everyman's right in recreational and protected areas. In total there are 13 RMK recreation areas across Estonia and since February 2009, RMK is also dealing with visitor management in five national parks and in approximately 40 other protected areas. In 2008 RMK published the manual "Visitor monitoring in nature areas" (Kajala et al. In April 2009 RMK took into use a new application KOSI for entering and processing the visitor information.