Cycling Tourism is one of the most fast growing tourism activities. In Germany more than four million active mountain bikers are known. In any area where long distance routes have been explored, described and promoted the number of guests increasing quickly. On the Danube Cycling Trail (started in 1984) more than 400,000 cyclists have been counted in 2010 and 680,000 in 2017. They generate 18.5 Mio. over nights. Therefore, experienced cyclists, authors...
The Iron Curtain Trail This is a project uniting the efforts of six Carpathian countries, contributing to improvement of accessibility of the South East Europe (SEE) regions by bicycle; to connection of SEE regions by European long distance cycling route; to realisation of opportunities for cycling and public transport connections; to promotion of cycling and combined sustainable mobility and tourism; to improvement of knowledge, exchange experiences...
Touristic heritage in Little-Europe A Hungarian – Romanian – Ukrainian project aimed at creating heritage tourism attractions; developing a touristic product by the attraction of the heritage in the 3 counties; improving professional competencies for target groups in those countries; creating a standard image, Little-Europe as an integrated destination; organisational development as setting up a new cluster to sustain the values of...
Breaking The Borders: Nature Discovery Trails to Eastern Carpathians Romanian and Ukrainian partners were developing a system of tourism circuits that provide rich experiences of the Carpathian nature by utilizing the existing and developing new infrastructures and education / visitor facilities, and by integrating tourism circuits into the livelihood activities of local people enabling the flow of benefits from tourism activities to the local...
Green Podkarpacie, – popularization of biodiversity in the ecosystem field The main objective of the project is to increase public awareness of the most valuable natural sites of Podkarpacie Voivodeship and their biodiversity click to read. This Polish project includes environmental education and sustainable tourism promotion activities.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015) Project duration: October, 2014 – September, 2015 Lead...
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As a part of the Carpathian Convention Sustainable Tourism Working Group, European Wilderness Society is supporting sustainable development in the Carpathian region. Therefore, we are supporting initiative Group Free Svydovets in its effort to protect biodiversity, glacier lakes, old-growth forests and wildlife of the unique Svydovets massif in Ukrainian Carpathians. On...
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From 17th to 18th December 2018 the 9th meeting of the Carpathian Convention Implementation Committee (CCIC) took place in Vienna. Following the Carpathian Convention progress and events since several years, the European Wilderness Society attended this event as an observer. CC Working groups The Carpathian Convention implements their objectives through the work of...
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Following some provisions of the recent meeting of the Carpathian Sustainable Tourism Centers(CSTCs) and stakeholders in Bratilasva, discussion dedicated to the further work of the CSTC Ukraine in Uzhhorod took place on 02 of February, 2018. Iryna Shchoka (European Wilderness Society), sustainable tourism expert Michael Meyer (Ecological Tourism in Europe), Valik...
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On the 25 and 26 of January, 2018 the meeting of the 3 Carpathian Sustainable Tourism Centres (CSTC) of Poland, Romania and Ukraine will take place during Tourism fair Slovakiatour in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Participants of the meeting will discuss: Joint work programme and indicators for the 3 CSTCs for 2018- 2020 yearsJoint reporting format to Tourism Working...
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As we already informed our readers, on the 5th Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Carpathian Convention, held on 10-12. October 2017 in Lillafüred, Hungary one of the Plenary sessions was dedicated to the Sustainable Tourism. After various interesting presentations such proposals we made: The Slovak Delegation presented its proposals for the future priorities of...
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Cycling Tourism is one of the most fast growing tourism activities. In Germany more than four million active mountain bikers are known. In any area where long distance routes have been explored, described and promoted the number of guests increasing quickly. On the Danube Cycling Trail (started in 1984) more than 400,000 cyclists have been counted in 2010 and 680,000 in...
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Today on 10 of October,2017 the Conference of the Parties 5 (COP 5) of the Carpathian Convention started its work in Lillafured, Hungary. The location of the conference is very close to the Bukk (in Hungarian –beech) National Park and the participants not only from Carpathian countries, but also from other continents started the work with the observation of the forest...
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Today the 9th Meeting of the Carpathian Convention Sustainable Tourism Working Group started its work in Brasov, Romania. Representatives from Carpathian countries: reported about the work of the National Tourism Task Forces and other related activities within each countrydiscussed transfer of information on the national implementation of the Carpathian Sustainable...
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