Foundation of the Danube.Pearls network

Partners of the project Transdanube.Pearls reached their major goal: the establishment of a Danube.Pearls network, which will continue to jointly elaborate services for sustainable traveling from the Black Forest to the Black Sea and provide user-friendly tourism information for tourists and inhabitants beyond project lifetime. Representatives of 11 management organizations from the Danube region have been certified as flagship regions for promoting sustainable mobility and tourism services and officially became a Danube.Pearl. This network of Danube.Pearls aims at informing visitors and citizens about the variety of sustainable travel options by taking the bus, train, bicycle or environmentally friendly ships.

The milestone has been reached during the final conference of the project Transdanube.Pearls at Lake Neusiedl, Austria on 13 May 2019, organized by the Envrionment Agency Austria, lead parther of the project. Over 80 tourism and mobility experts from all over the Danube region attended the final event of the project. During the conference, project partners presented new mobility and tourism services implemented in the course of the project. Those services create additional possibilities for exploring the region sustainably. The project Transdanube.Pearls ends on 30 June 2019. A joint agreement by the management organizations in the course of a network seminar organized in Pécs, Hungary in February 2019 pave the way for the foundation of the netowrk. As a consequence, members of the network decided to continue fostering sustainable mobility in tourism in the Danube region beyond project lifetime of the EU project Transdanube.Pearls.

The first general assembly of the Danube.Pearls network took place in Pezinok, Slovakia on 15 May 2019. 11 Danube.Pearls from 8 Danube countries came together and discussed the first year's activities of the network that will start its work on 1st of July 2019. The meeting was led by the joint secretariat of the network, the WGD Danube Upper Austria Tourism.

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WEB-PRESENCE: Launch of the Danube.Pearls website

To increase the visibility of the Danube.Pearls network and promote tourism mobility packages which offer the opportunity to explore the Danube region sustainably, the embers decided to establish an internet landing page.  The recently launched website informs about the Pearls, sustainable mobility within and between the regions and offers inspiration for the upcoming holidays.

Visit the website of the Danube.Pearls network here ...

BRAND NEW: Tourist travel guide for the Danube region

With the slogan “Discover hidden Pearls along the Danube”, a new travel guide provides information about 13 Pearls including touristic highlights, mobility offers for reaching the attractions sustainably and bookable tourism packages such as an organized bike tour from Budapest in Hungary to Kladovo in Serbia. Additionally, the brochure provides inspirations for tourists to travel the destinations and informs about possibilities to travel sustainable from one destination to the other by train, bike or bus. 

The brochure is available in English and German.

Influential: DTP Campaign. Real People. Real Stories

How did Transdanube.Pearls contribute to the improvement of the life of citizens, locals or people working in the field of mobility and tourism? The Danube Transnational Programme initiated a campaign that highlights the influence of projects such as Transdanube.
Pearls on people’s daily lives. Read the story about the impact of Transdanube.Pearls on people’s lives in the Danube region and how project activities such as trainings or new sustainable mobility services improved their lives. The story is available here ... 

UPDATE: EuroVelo 6 app provides new information for cyclists

Are you already planning your next cycling trip along the Danube? Then check out the updated EuroVelo 6 app. The application provides useful information when cycling along the EuroVelo 6 route such as information about major public bus and train stations and mobility info center locations in our Danube.Pearls destinations!

The new version for IOS systems: apple.co/2X4OxBM and for Android systes:bit.ly/2HMTJUl

ON-SITE MOBILITY INFORMATION: More than 10 mobility information centers ESTABLISHED in the Danube region

The partners have managed to establish more than 10 physical mobility information centers throughout the Danube region. The mobility information centers inform tourists and inhabitants about possibilities to reach their destinations with sustainable means of transport. They are important tools for changing people’s attitudes towards mobility and their travel behavior. Furthermore, they will play a crucial role in implementing the concept of sustainable mobility in the future network of Danube.Pearls. 

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THROWBACK: Project results of 2,5 years of partnership 

15 partners from 9 Danube countries worked together for 2,5 years to improve possibilities to travel the Danube region sustainably. The implementation of mobility information centers along the Danube, bike rental and bike carriage systems, flexible transport systems as well as trainings on transnational and national level demonstrate just some of our project activities, next to the highlight of our work, the Danube.Pearls network that will continue foster the concept of sustainable mobility beyond project lifetime. The final brochure summarizing results of the project Transdanube.Pearls is available here ...

EXPERIENCED: Exploring the potential of soft mobility in the Danube Delta

Around 40 participants and representatives from the tourism and mobility sector visited the Danube Delta in Romania in October 2018 during a study visit. Together they explored existing mobility and tourism services in a region with untouched nature, a diversity of species and high attractiveness for soft tourism.  The study visit was organized by the Romanian project partner, the South-East Regional Development Agency. Read more here ... 

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