New publications
Abschlussbericht zum Projekt "Nachhaltigkeit im Deutschlandtourismus"
Touristische-Leuchttürme
Wegeinfrastruktur und Wegemanagement
Final Project Report "Fostering sustainable tourism development in Germany"
The project report presents the results of the specialist conferences and makes recommendations to the tourism industry, politicians and organisations from the fields of nature and environmental protection, leisure, sport, mobility and science.
Study Bike Tourism
The study ‘Cycle tourism today and in the future: sentiment 2021’ picks up on the upswing in the use of e-bikes. The study is based on an industry survey to obtain a picture of the mood in German regions regarding the importance of e-bikes and e-mountain bikes and to obtain recommendations for action for strategic work at destination level.
Best Practice Guide „Naturschutz und touristische Freizeitaktivitäten im Lebensraum Wald"
The handout highlights the potential for conflict that arises from the increased utilisation pressure in forests and protected areas due to the fact that recreational activities can adversely affect fauna and flora. The guide provides an introduction to the topic of disturbance ecology and gives several examples of successful visitor management and other ways of dealing with these conflicts of use.
Best Practice Guide „Klimawege"
The handout ‘Climate trails - a tourist contribution to environmental education’ serves as a template for the design of themed hiking trails. Using the example of a climate trail in Rhineland-Palatinate, the topic of climate change in the forest is dealt with. The climate trail in Bremen shows the connection between climate change and colonialism.
Final Project Report ‚Perspectives for Sustainable Tourism'
The final report presents the results of the expert conferences and outlines recommendations for action for sustainable tourism development.
Basic Paper Tourism Financing in Rural Areas
The basic paper describes the problems of tourism financing, comments on current mandatory and voluntary forms and models of tourism contributions with regard to their suitability and identifies possible solutions.
Basic Paper Tourism and Climate Change
The basic paper addresses the problems of climate change for winter tourism, summarises key project findings and provides information on suitable measures and possible solutions.
Project Dialogue Boards
The series of dialogue boards focusing on the involvement of nature, environmental, leisure, sport and tourism associations in the implementation of the national strategy on biological diversity ihas been completed. A documentation of the outcomes is available in German.
Strategy for sustainable tourism development of the Carpathians
At its 4th Conference of the Parties in September 2014, the Parties to the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (Carpathian Convention) adopted a joint strategy for sustainable tourism development in the mountain region. The project for developing the strategy was supported by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and coordinated by ETE.
Training tool on biodiversity and tourism
The 'Schulungsmodul Biologische Vielfalt und Tourismus' is a training tool for the capacity building of tour guides which aims at rising the awareness of biodiversity and giving practical guidelines for the implementation of conservation of biodiversity in tourism operations. Additionally, there is an introduction sheet for the training module.
Good practices of sustainable tourism in the Carpathians
Fourteen best practices from the seven Carpathian countries show how sustainable tourism development contributes to local communities and helps to preserve the natural and cultural heritage.
Code of practice: tourism and biological diversity
The code of practice establishes a basis for optimizing cooperation, tourism projects and tourism products in order to support sustainable forms of nature tourism.
Tourism and nature conservation
The brochure introduces best practice examples from the work of the NGOs in the fields of cooperation and environmentally friendly tourism products.
Principles and strategy on tourism and biodiversity
The Working Group on Tourism and Biodiversity established general principles on tourism and biodiversity as well as a common strategy to support the National Strategy on Biodiversity.
Sustainable tourism products for children and young people
The brochure gives an overview of sustainable tourism products offered by NGOs for children and young people, being of interest for tour operators specialising on children and youth travel.
Recommendations for tourism and quality labels
The recommendations show how to integrate the needs of conservation of biodiversity into selected tourism and quality labels.
