Umwelttechnologietransfer im Tourismus - Untersuchung ueber Einsatzbereiche exportorientierter Innovationen in Schwellen- und Entwicklungslaendern und modellhafte Entwicklung einer Transferstrategie Resuemee und Ausblick

Abstract

The project aimed at the following goals: (1) to provide experts in the tourism industry with ideas on how concrete tourism-related environmental problems can be resolved, based on best-practice examples; (2) to better familiarise environmental technology producers with the specific areas of possible environmental technology use and, in this manner, to promote among other things the realisation of the vast market potential; (3) to highlight possibilities for co-operation between the tourism industry and environmental technology producers and/or transfer institutions; and (4) to provide tourism industry experts with knowledge on how the domestic and foreign use of environmental technology is steered and promoted within the framework of tourism, environmental and technology policy. In order to achieve these aims, an international expert conference on 'Environmental Technology and Tourism' was held in March 1998 in the run-up to the International Tourism Exchange in Berlin. The rsults of the conference demonstrate that the tourism industry is actively trying to solve environmental problems caused by their activities and that environmental technologies play a large role in these efforts. Beyond the above stated objectives, it was possible within the framework of the scientific preparation and evaluation of the conference to identify numerous possibilities for optimising the co-operation between the two sectors of environmental technology and tourism. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RN 8422(1999,31) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman