8-9 October 2014, Budapest, Hungary

The meeting “Next Steps after the Adoption of Strategy for Sustainable Tourism Development of the Carpathians” is organised in the framework of the Carpathian Sustainable Tourism Strategy Development Project as the third NGO meeting.

• Meeting report

16-18 June 2014, Budapest, Hungary

The meeting “Towards Sustainable Development of the Carpathians: Implementing the Strategy for Sustainable Tourism” is organized in the framework of a project, which aims at elaboration of an agreed and adoptable strategy for sustainable tourism development in the Carpathians that will be implemented under the Carpathian Convention.

• Meeting report

12-14 June 2013, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia

NGOs working meeting is entitled: “Towards Sustainable Development of the Carpathians. Strategy for Tourism”. The meeting is a part of the project, which aims at elaboration of an agreed and adoptable strategy for sustainable tourism development in Carpathians, accoding to the Carpathian Convention.

• Meeting participant list 1,2
• Meeting report
• Meeting in details and in photos

7, 9-10 November 2012, Királyrét, Hungary

16 CEE NGO representatives met in Királyrét in Hungary to

• share ideas on how to influence the content of the Carpathian Tourism Strategy,
• disseminate the results of assessing CEE national development tourism strategies,
• develop project proposals on implementing the Danube Strategy from biodiversity point of view,
• finalize their work plan for 2012.

Presentations:

• Why it is necessary to assess planning documents for tourism?
• Carpathian Sustainable Tourism Strategy
• Danube Strategy
• Romania Tourism Strategy Assessment
• Moldovian tourism strategy
• Bulgaria Tourism Strategy Assessment
• Tourism Assessment Ukraine

• Meeting Participant list
• STWG Meeting report
• GreenArts International Beauty Contest
• STWG activities for 2013

27 October 2011, Pilisszentkereszt – Dobogókő, Hungary

The meeting of the Sustainable Tourism Working Group was held during

the Annual Meeting of CEEweb for Biodiversity on 27th of October, 2011

in Dobogókő, near Budapest. The participants discussed the future

development of National Tourism Strategy Assessment as well as

proposals for funding and activities for STWG in 2012. The group has

also prepared the Statement on “Mountains and Tourism” for Rio + 20

Summit.

• Meeting minutes
• Mountain and Tourism Declaration

16-18 September 2010, Kroscienko, Poland

The STWG Meeting this year was held in Kroscienko in Pieniny Mountains, the cross-border nature protected area with Slovakia (Pieniny National Park).

We enjoyed the effective group working and planning activities for the future. During the meeting participants compiled the list of recommendation to the Indicators developed by Tourism Sustainability Group of the European Commission’s DG Enterprise. Representative of the STWG continues the work within the Carpathian Convention, especially in its Sustainable Tourism Working Group. Through the contribution of this group a Tourism Protocol was already adopted and a Strategy is under adoption.

STWG would like to warmly welcome all the member organizations to cooperation in its actions next year.

The meeting was realised with the financial support of the European Commission.

• Report on the STWG meeting
• Recommendations for the indicators developed by the EC DG Enterprise Tourism Sustainability Group

16 October 2008, Szentendre, Hungary

CEEweb Sustainable Tourism Working Group (STWG) meeting was held back-to-back with CEEweb Annual Meeting. Among other things, the participants of the meeting developed a workplan for 2009 and elected Ivan Svetozarevic of Young Researchers of Serbia as the chair of the Working Group.

The meeting was realised with the financial support of the European Commission. 

9-13 October 2008, Bojentsi, Bulgaria

CEEweb Sustainable Tourism Working Group (STWG) meeting was held back-to-back with a workshop “Tourism Policies in EU and Beyond”. The workshop included a training on writing policy papers. The events took place on October 10-13, 2008 in Bojentsi/Gabrovo, Bulgaria. The topic of the workshop was chosen by the participants of the STWG meeting that took place in December 2007 in Romania.

• Meeting minutes
• Presentation on tourism related EU institutions,policies and actors
• Presentation on writing policy papers

The meeting was realised with the financial support of the European Commission. 

Venue of the event:

Parlapanova House in Bulgaria

Photo is taken from www.visitbulgaria.net

Previous meetings

and Meeting of the Sustainable Tourism Working GroupDecember 17-19, 2007, Remetea, Trascau Mountains, Romania

• Agenda of stakeholders meeting
• Agenda of training and STWG meeting
• Meeting minutes

Workshop on NGO participation in decision making

on tourism development

Advocacy and campaigning

Dobarsko and Govedartzi, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria

22-25 October 2007

• Agenda
• Minutes

and Meeting of the Sustainable Tourism Working Group28 June – 1 July, 2007, Djerdap National Park, Serbia

• Meeting minutes
• Presentation:  WINE AND WOLVES: Linking conservation and tourism through stakeholder partnerships. Benjamin Carey, Dunira Strategy

STWG Workshop and 2nd UNESCO (Bresce) Summer School

& 4th Sustainable Tourism Working Group Meeting 2006

23-27 October 2006, Strandja Nature Park, Bulgaria

• Agenda of the meeting

• Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Minutes