Final conference of the project Transdanube.Pearls at Lake Neusiedl on 13 May 2019

Over 80 tourism and mobility experts from nine Danube countries attended the final event. Project partners presented new mobility and tourism services implemented during the project that enhance sustainable travel along the Danube. Besides, experts from the mobility and tourism sector jointly discussed the question about how destinations can encourage their encourage their customers to use sustainable means of transport for holidays.

Besides, the Danube.Pearl network was officially founded during the final conference. Representatives of 11 destinations along the Danube have been officially certified as Danube.Pearl and member of the network Danube.Pearls. 

(c) Umweltbundesamt/B. Gröger

About the network Danube.Pearls

This network of Danube.Pearls offers mobility and tourism services for visitors and tourists and unique possibilities to travel and explore destinations along the Danube without using private car. Moreover, it serves as common platform the destinations along the Danube in order to set up joint marketing activities and thereby, increase the visibility of the Danube.Pearls. Furthermore, members will jointly elaborate services for travelling sustainably from the Black Forest to the Black Sea and inform visitors and citizens about the variety of sustainable travel options by taking the bus, train, bicycle or envrionmentally friendly ships. Thereby, visitors of the Danube region will be able to travel sustainably not only to and within a destination but also from one Danube.Pearl to the other. 

By establishing the network, the further implementation and development of achieved results and cooperation will be guaranteed beyond project duration of Transdanube.Pearls. Further information about the event is available here.

The first general assembly of the network took already place in Pezinok, Slovakia on 14 May 2019. Further information about the event and the network will follow soon!

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(c) Umweltbundesamt/B. Gröger