Nature Tourism Conference: Policies – Products - Practices
The conference will provide a forum bringing together nature conservation and tourism development sectors. We regard it highly practical to unite different initiatives from the European to the local level in one event which allows to exchange know-how, to mutually benefit from the practical results and possibly to extent your networks for future joint activities.
What are the conference topics?
The relation between nature conservation and tourism is addressed from a variety of angles like policies, products, and visitors. Keynote speeches, case presentations and discussions will range from tourism product development and branding to stakeholder involvement, cooperation and partnership between tourism and nature conservation sectors, to legislation and its implementation.
Who is participating?
We expect nature tourism product providers, managers of protected nature sites, environmental experts, rural developers, nature tour operators, municipalities, ministries, rural tourism associations, European partnership initiatives. The diversity of the audience will create an excellent opportunity for the exchange of opinions and best practices. As practitioners in the nature tourism field, we truly believe that the event will allow a dynamic exchange among professionals.
Conference working language is English with simultaneous translation to Latvian on March 22. Participants are welcome to bring along posters, leaflets, documented project results and other resources they would like to share.
For international participants please find travel information to Latvia, Riga here.
The workshop is co-financed by:
The conference will provide a forum bringing together nature conservation and tourism development sectors. We regard it highly practical to unite different initiatives from the European to the local level in one event which allows to exchange know-how, to mutually benefit from the practical results and possibly to extent your networks for future joint activities.
What are the conference topics?
The relation between nature conservation and tourism is addressed from a variety of angles like policies, products, and visitors. Keynote speeches, case presentations and discussions will range from tourism product development and branding to stakeholder involvement, cooperation and partnership between tourism and nature conservation sectors, to legislation and its implementation.
Who is participating?
We expect nature tourism product providers, managers of protected nature sites, environmental experts, rural developers, nature tour operators, municipalities, ministries, rural tourism associations, European partnership initiatives. The diversity of the audience will create an excellent opportunity for the exchange of opinions and best practices. As practitioners in the nature tourism field, we truly believe that the event will allow a dynamic exchange among professionals.
Conference working language is English with simultaneous translation to Latvian on March 22. Participants are welcome to bring along posters, leaflets, documented project results and other resources they would like to share.
For international participants please find travel information to Latvia, Riga here.
The workshop is co-financed by:
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These projects are partly financed by the European Union (ERDF) within the Baltic Sea Region Programme: |
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Project "Parks & Benefits". |
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Project "Baltic Green Belt". |
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Project "Agora 2.0". |
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Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Noway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, the project "Sustainable use and management of nature resources in the Natura 2000 sites- popular and potential tourism destinations in Latvia". |
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With the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Community, the Project POLPROP- NATURA
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Ministry of the Environment |
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Latvian Environmental Protection Fund Administration
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| Latvia Tourism Development agency | Riga Tourism Development Bureau |
Ķemeri National park | Latvian Nature Conservation Agency |
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| EUROPARC Nord-Baltic Section | Valmiermuiža beer brewery | International Office of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), project “MobEE - innovative concepts for mobility, energy and experience in tourism along the Baltic Sea Coast“, NOE 10/026) |
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| Latvijas Zaļais punkts |
Latvian State Forests |
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