Biodiversity event at ITB!
Let me invite you to an important event on Thursday March 7th (CSR-Day) at the ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade show. Location: Hall 4, big stage – Time: 10h- 12h: TRAVEL INTO DIVERSITY – HOW TO GAIN CUSTOMERS PROMOTING BIODIVERSITY Tourism companies provide a look behind the scenes and report about biodiversity protection in […]
Sustainable tourism award launched
The German Tourism Association together with the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency just launched a sustainable tourism award on October 24th 2012! The award addresses all tourism destinations in Germany that follow a sustainable approach of their tourism development. Interested destinations can apply until January 31st 2013. Nicola Koschel is responsible for […]
WWF-research in process
Nicola Koschel is in charge of a research by oder of WWF Germany about the relevance of the German tourism outbound market to WWF’s priority (marine) ecoregions. The intention is to analyze German visitor flows (numbers and hotspots) and identify potential interrelations between conservation activities and tourism as well as measurements to use tourism for […]
“Biodiversity All Inclusive” launched
With the aim to use sustainable tourism to protect nature and biodiversity in Germany, the WWF together with suppliers of the tourism industry launched the project “Biodiversity all inclusive”. The first workshop took place in Lenzen on 2.- 3. February 2012. Projects participants are Germany’s largest hotel chain Accor with their hotel brands Novotel, Sofitel, Mercure, […]
ITB 2012
ITB – the B2B-Platform for all tourism businesses is going to start tomorrow, March 7th. Nicola Koschel will attend the fair from Wednesday to Friday. Friday she will be primarily at the Berlin/Brandenburg stand in hall 12 stand 101 to be available for all business partners from the Netherlands! Please come and see me there!
Award for Havel Cycle Route
The Havel Cycle Route won the award for the best cycle route of the year 2012 at the “Fiets en Wandelbeurs” (Cycling and Rambling fair), the largest fair in the Netherlands for cyclists and ramblers. On February 11th the organizers and jury presented the award to Gerd Koallik (Aktiv Reisen Berlin Brandenburg) and Nicola Koschel […]
Sustainable Tourism Award
Given the growing concern about natural and cultural resources in Germany, the German Tourism Association will launch a sustainable tourism award in 2012! The award will be developed by order of the Federal Environment Agency and supported by the Federal Ministry of the Environment. It will invite destinations and businesses for applications and recognize the […]
Biodiversity „all inclusive“
WWF and partners select concrete measurements in their tourism operation for a positive impact on biodiversity conservation: Nicola Koschel supports the WWF project Biodiversity „all inclusive“ (with funding from the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in cooperation with NIT -Institute for Tourism Research in Northern Europe) to establish a think-tank to analyse concrete measurements […]
Seminar in Mexico
A group of organizations and industry leaders in the Riviera Maya in Mexico is recently developing the “Quintana Roo Low Carbon Tourism Initiative”, led by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The aim of the initiative is to join efforts in climate change and tourism and serve as a catalyst to go towards a low emission development […]
Amsterdam
Berlin and Brandenburg joined forces again to promote tourism among the Dutch press. Nicola Koschel and her colleague Sophia Quint from VisitBerlin organized a press lunch on June 21st in Amsterdam (in cooperation with the German National Tourist Board in the Netherlands). For further information (in Dutch) please see the article about the event in […]
