Trainer for 4 GSTC- Sustainable Tourism online trainings (running each for 4-weeks).

Client: GSTC, Year: 2025/2026

Coordination between the project partners TourCert and GSTC and lead of intervention area “impact management”. The project was co-funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Client: GSTC, Year 2022-2024

WWF Study on the use of single use plastic, packaging and waste management of the tourism sector and municipalities in Trang and Koh Tao / Thailand. Team member of the Institute for Tourism Sustainability / Austria in cooperation with the Plastics Institute of Thailand.

Client: WWF Thailand, Year 2024

Nicola Koschel was assigned as an experts to develop GSTC’s new Attraction Criteria including two public consultations and a feasibility assessment.

Client: GSTC, Year: 2023/2024

Coordination and moderation of the certifiers panel of COASYS (Collaborative Online Audit System), an initiative of TourCert, the GSTC, The Austrian Ecolabel and Green Star Hotel Egypt, co- funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Client: TourCert, Year: 2021

Development of a sustainability index for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, South Tyrol, in cooperation with AlpS and Vitalpin. Development of sustainable tourism criteria and indicators and a roadmap for the implementation of sustainability in South Tyrolean tourism.

Client: IDM, Bolzano, GSTC, Year: 2020/2021

Tailored 2-day on-site training of the GSTC Sustainable Tourism Training Program (STTP) for Fjordnorway Tourism in Bergen/Norway

Co-hosting of the GSTC online training class on behalf of Innovation Norway (duration: 4 weeks) 

Client: GSTC, Year: 2019/2020

Preparation and moderation of the panel at the GSTC Global Conference in the Azores 

Client: WWF, Year: 2019

Sustainable Tourism Training at the GSTC Global Conference in the Azores.

Client: GSTC, Year 2019

Assistance during the revision process of the GSTC destination criteria after consultation with the international WWF network.

Client: WWF Germany, Year 2016

Development (organization, coordination and scientific management) of a federal sustainable tourism award by order of the German Tourism Association and the Federal Environment Agency supported by the Federal Ministry of the Environment.

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Regional Development, Year 20111-2013

Support for WWF’s project management: Establishment of a think-tank to analyze concrete measurements for biodiversity conservation in small and big tourism enterprises in Germany and assistance during the implementation; identification of Best Practices and development of guidelines; organization of workshops and individual meetings with tourism entrepreneurs and organization of the closing ceremony during ITB 2013.

Client: WWF Germany with funding from the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Year 2011-2013

Research about the relevance of the German tourism outbound market to WWF’s priority (marine) ecoregions. Analysis of German visitor flows (numbers and hotspots) and identification of potential interrelations between conservation activities and tourism as well as measurements to use tourism for the protection of coastal habitats.

Client: WWF Germany, Year 2012

Organization and coordination of a visitor survey and investigation (about the tourist perception and acceptance of the activities in the former sewage field of Hobrechtsfelde, north of Berlin) and identification of strategies for the future tourism development in the area.

Client: Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development; Master Programme “Sustainable Tourism Management”, Year 2011

Organization of a scientific training for experts of the Radiation Safety Department of the Estonian Environmental Board by order of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA).

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Regional Development, Year: 2011

Cooperation Management of the WWF/TOI partnership with the responsibility for the development and coordination of the projects in destinations of global relevance for WWF and The Tour Operator’s Initiative (TOI) as well as for the communication and reporting between the partners and to the public audience.

Client: TOI (domiciled at UNWTO, Madrid) and WWF Germany, Year 2010-2011

Development of a marketing concept for a new established network of visitor centers in the protected areas of Brandenburg (incl. 3 workshops with the representatives) by order of Pro Agro.

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Regional Development, Year 209-2010

Development (organization, coordination and scientific management) of the European Destination Award of Excellence in Germany for the German Tourism Association and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This included the Organization and participation (as jury member) of the inspection tour of the finalists in the European Destination Award of Excellence in Germany.

Client: BTE Tourism Management,Regional Development, Year 2009-2010

Development of a conference documentation and conduction of a tourism development strategy for the New Federal States of Germany by order of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Regional Development, Year 2009

Preparation and moderation of the international jury meeting on behalf of the European Destination Award of Excellence in Estonia with the theme “Tourism in Protected Areas” in Tallinn for the Estonian Tourism Board.

Participation in the inspection tour of the finalists in the European Destination Award of Excellence in Estonia with the theme “Tourism in Protected Areas” for the Estonian Tourism Board.

Client: AeraNova Consult, Year 2009

Organization of the conference „Go East! The New Feral States of Germany as a holiday destination for foreign tourists” for the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Year 2009

Support for the development of a master plan for hiking-tourism in the nature park Hoher Fläming on behalf of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district.

Client: AeraNova Consult, Year 2008

Organization of the conference “Tourism, Biodiversity and Climate Change” on November 27th in Berlin, by order of The German Tourism Association, the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry of the Environment.

Client: BTE Tourism Management, Regional Development, Year 2008

Monitoring study / investigation of the regional economic impacts of tourism in the Lower Oder Valley National Park.

Client: Wberswalde University for Sustainable Development; Master Programme “Sustainable Tourism Management”, Year 2008

Status quo analysis of the environmental- and climate-protection activities of the members of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW).

Client: AeraNova Consult, Year 2008

Demand analysis for nature-based tourism in Germany on behalf of the tourism authority of Estonia.

Client: AeraNova Consult in cooperation with the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development; Master Programme “Sustainable Tourism Management”. Year 2008

Evaluation of community-based ecotourism projects in Costa Rica.

Client: German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Year 2007