EcoVeloTour Fostering enhanced ecotourism planning along the Eurovelo cycle route network in the Danube region
EcoVeloTour facilitates the development of sustainable tourism in the Danube region along EuroVelo routes via enhanced, conscious and ecologically sound framework of tourism destination management and extending cyclist tourism, unfolding neighbouring regions beyond the EuroVelo route.
The regions will capitalize on cultural and natural heritage, through the integration of the ecosystem service framework into ecotourism planning, that enable the attentive maintenance of high ecosystem provisions that contribute to the well-being of the region including ecotourism stakeholders in the long run.
The framework will be strongly support by sustainable mobility guidelines, that is key element in comprehensive ecotourism planning, esp. in the case of cyclist ecotourism. Moreover, a comprehensive market research will help Danube region wide to assess better the potentials and ways forward in the ecotourism development.
Regional ecotourism strategies will be elaborated based on the developed framework and good practices, studies on ecotourism, green mobility, knowledge exchange, potential ecosystem service mapping of pilot areas, intensive key actors’ cooperation, stakeholder analysis and participation, learning interactions (including e-learning) at regional and transnational level. The implementation of the strategies starts during the project lifetime including small-scale investments too. The bottom-up approach, collected experience from local level will result in a policy recommendation to ensure the capitalization of project results at policy-maker level.
Outputs
1. Transnational tools for ecotourism development and management: enhanced framework for ecotourism development and mobility planning guidelines, transnational market research, policy recommendation, ecotourism mobile app., e-learning platform;
2. Pilot regional ecotourism strategies;
3. Transnational learning interactions.
- Start date
- 01-06-2018
- End date
- 30-09-2021
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2117177,58
- ERDF Contribution: 1575855,96
- IPA Contribution: 223744,97
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 2
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Foster sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| GUIDELINES FOR ESS-BASED ECOTOURISM STRATEGY - LEAFLET | 14-10-2021 12:49:29 | |
| GUIDELINES FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES BASED ECOTOURISM STRATEGY | 29-09-2021 09:46:54 | |
| A KERÉKPÁROS TURIZMUS ÉS ÖKOTURIZMUS FEJLESZTÉSI STRATÉGIÁJA A RÁKOS-PATAK MENTÉN AZ ÖKOSZISZTÉMA SZOLGÁLTATÁSOK KERETRENDSZERÉBEN | 29-09-2021 09:38:35 | |
| STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING CYCLING TOURISM AND ECOTOURISM ALONG THE RÁKOS-STREAM, CONSIDERING APPLIED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES | 29-09-2021 09:25:09 | |
| Policy recommendations on ecotourism for the countries of the Danube region | 27-09-2021 11:34:01 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Budapest, District 14 Zugló Municipality | Lead partner | merker.viktor@zuglo.hu | HUNGARY |
| University of Passau - CenTouris | ERDF partner | Stefan.mang@uni-passau.de | GERMANY |
| Tourism Board of East Bavaria | ERDF partner | poschinger@ostbayern-tourismus.de | GERMANY |
| Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism | ERDF partner | kaloyanov.kiril@gmail.com | BULGARIA |
| Košice Region Tourism | ERDF partner | lenka.jurkova@kosiceregion.com | SLOVAKIA |
Project News
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EcoVeloTour - Successful final conference organised by EcoVeloTour project
- 01-10-2021
Successful final conference organised by EcoVeloTour project on the 23th September, 2021. How to develop and maintain successful sustainable tourism projects in Central Europe? The EcoVeloTour project’s final conference tried to answer...
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EcoVeloTour - The ecotourism development strategy of the Hungarian project area, the Rákos-creek, has been completed
- 29-09-2021
The ecotourism development strategy of the Hungarian project area, the Rákos-creek has been developed by the experts from the Corvinus University of Budapest with the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders. The Eurovelo...
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EcoVeloTour - Final versions of „Guidelines for Ecosystem Services Based Ecotourism Strategy” and policy recommendations are available
- 29-09-2021
Useful strategic planning documents have been completed: Final versions of „Guidelines for Ecosystem Services Based Ecotourism Strategy” and policy recommendations are available In the last periods the preliminary...
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EcoVeloTour - Cycling along the Danube (in Serbia)
- 28-09-2021
“Cycling along the Danube (in Serbia)” transnational event organised by the Danube Competence Center On September 20th, 2021, the Danube Competence Center organised the transnational event “Cycling along the Danube (in Serbia)” within...
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EcoVeloTour - International online conference by BAAT
- 23-09-2021
Building cycling tourism routes - challenges and lessons learnt from Central and Eastern Europe International online conference // 29th September 2021 The Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism invites interested stakeholders and...
