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
- 31-05-2021
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Study on SMART bike rest places concept development | 24-09-2020 14:27:00 | |
| Guidelines for sustainable cycling tourism | 04-09-2019 11:02:10 | |
| ESS based ecotourism guidelines | 26-08-2019 11:38:55 | |
| EcoVeloTour_Newsletter_1 | 16-08-2019 11:15:34 | |
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 - Transnational Event: Good examples for ecosystem service-based ecotourism development
- 09-12-2020
We continue the success story of EcoVeloTour! We are very pleased to report that our partner, BCE, brought the Rákos creek’s surrounding more sustainable to the involved not only on the Researchers' Night in Hungary, but also at their...
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EcoVeloTour - EcoVeloTour on the Austrian platform “UNInteressant?“
- 25-11-2020
An article about EcoVeloTour was published at the Austrian platform “UNInteressant?” (https://uninteressant.at/). “UNInteressant?” is a campaign that shows how the work of researchers affects specific areas of our daily lives. Together with the...
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EcoVeloTour - Event “Sustainable cycle and eco-tourism in the national park Neusiedler See – Seewinkel”
- 15-11-2020
Joachim Gauster, Lukas Hartwig, Paul Pfaffenbichler Institute for Transport Studies, BOKU Vienna, 28/10/2020 Introduction On October 14, 2020, a team of five people from the EcoVeloTour partner...
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EcoVeloTour - “Ecotourism along the Rákos-creek - exchange of municipal experience” - online event in Budapest
- 13-11-2020
A successful online event was hold on October 20, 2020 with the title "Ecotourism along the Rákos-creek - exchange of municipal experience", organized by the Corvinus University of Budapest and the Municipality of Budapest. The meeting generated...
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EcoVeloTour - Transnational Event: Good examples for ecosystem service-based ecotourism development
- 11-11-2020
Corvinus University of Budapest organizes the next important event of EcoVeloTour project. The event’s theme will be the ecosystem services-based ecotourism. The aim of this online conference is to reach domestic target groups transferring the...
