Keynote on Destination Marketing: good-practice Azerbaijan, an emerging Meetings destination

Mentoring and advising the team management team of the Estonian Tourist Board

Florian Sengstschmid was the Keynote speaker on ‘Sustainable Tourism Development’ at a conference organized by the governor of Alytus county in Lithuania.

EUDS worked through the PRESERVE project to peer review two regions; Örebro in Sweden and Eszak-Alföd in Hungary. We assessed the regional tourism development strategy, conducted qualitative interviews and formulated a strategic approach for future regional tourism development.

EUDS worked with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce to formulate a common branding and marketing strategy for successful positioning of Austrian Tourism Education Institutes in the Russian Federation.

A major potential of tourism in Estonia lies in the beautiful, unspoilt nature. In this context EUDS developed a product and theme-management strategy for the Estonian National Tourist Office.

Florian Sengstschmid was mentoring the president of the European Travel Commission (ETC) on development issues with special focus on enlarging its activities towards CIS regions.

EUDS evaluated the potential market entry of a network of European tour operators into Russia and Ukraine.

EUDS managed the Austrian EDEN project in collaboration with the Austrian National Tourist Office and Austrian Ministry of Economics in the years from 2007 until 2011. The topics of the award reached from Rural Tourism, Tourism and Intangible Heritage, Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas, Aquatic Tourism to Tourism and Regeneration of physical sites. EUDS developed the selection criteria, assessed potential sites within Austria and jointly with other jury members proposed the final 3 destinations to be presented to an international jury