April 2018
Training week for future Danube Guides trainers from 6 Danube countries in the national park Danube Floodplanes in Orth / Donau / Austria. We discussed and learnt how to guide people with special needs; how to transform cultural and natural heritage into educational products ... and had lots of fun. In the frame of the INTERREG project LENA.
Sustainability assessment of a hiking tour package in Jordan for the local partner agency of Weltweitwandern. Great tour, great country, great people.
14.3.2018
Meeting with the Georgian Minister for agriculture. Being in Tbilisi in behalf of the Austrian Development Agency to prepare a project on mountain tourism and organic agriculture. Together with Kurt Luger, Lela Khartishvili and David Bedoshvili.
19.12.2017
Attending the UNWTO closing ceremony for the International Year 2017 of Sustainable Tourism for development in Geneva / CH. The last part ('for development') is often forgotten (even in one of the welcome speeches here), but it is not about tourism per se, it is about its contribution to the SDGs. The HTW Chur was the only educational partner of the IY2017.
Website: 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
15.12.2017
In Salzburg, the Afro-Asian Institute AAI invited to simulate the sustainable development of an emerging country as part of the strategy game Stratagem - led by Christian.
One day negotiations, data analysis and political decisions were taken.
13.12.2017
The 7th Vorarlberg Convention Forum was organized by Convention Partner Vorarlberg in the Festival House Bregenz. Based on the values of hospitality, regionalism and sustainability, six tourism experts - including Christian Baumgartner - designed specific workshops and discussed on the podium.
7.12.2017
Moderating a tourism workshop to develop a climate change adaptation strategy for a part of the Austria region of Pongau. Creative output documentation ...
27.-30.11.2017, Erfurt
Training for Preservation of Cultural Heritage und International Policy Conference in Erfurt / DE. A very important step - several institutions sign a declaration for the development of the Cultural Route of Reformation.
Article: Common definition Reformation-themed cultural heritage
30.10.2017, Winterthur
Panelist in the Innovation-Forum 16 of the Swiss Green Economy Symposium 2017 - Sustainable Tourism, representing the HTW Chur.
12.-14.10.2017, Alpbach
With and for the Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol and the BMLFUW team of the Austrian Ecolabel. In the great Congress Center Alpbach.
