Author: lund-durlacher

Prof. Lund-Durlacher contributes to the D3HUB – Data-Driven Destinations Hub as an external expert, providing DMO support for Benissa City Council and Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning. Her services focus on analysing destination data assessments and action plans, identifying data needs and new data sources, supporting data updates, interpreting collection results, and advising on…

The study provided the tourism-sector baseline assessment: analysing single-use plastic consumption, interviewing tourism operators, facilitating stakeholder roundtables and workshops, modelling tourism-related plastic waste flows, and developing scenarios, recommendations and a Plastic Waste Monitoring Tool for tourism businesses. Results include quantified SUP baselines, practical measures for hotels, restaurants, tour and diving operators, implementation steps for refill…

Within the project Crisis Management and Governance in Tourism, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher provided expert advisory services to Visit Kristinestad, Visit Finland / Business Finland and the City of Helsinki. Her work included online guidance, an in-person workshop, risk assessment, SWOT analysis, identification of resilience measures and support for the development of concrete action plans…

This LEADER cooperation project aims to position the East Bavaria region as a credible sustainable holiday destination, enhance regional value creation, and support businesses on their path toward sustainability. Activities include strategic analysis, practical toolkits, coach training, excursions, networking workshops, and a final sustainability congress. ITS will provide guidance and training tools to support sustainable…

Sustainable EU Tourism – Shaping the Tourism of Tomorrow supports European destinations in advancing a sustainable and resilient tourism transition. The project identifies key challenges and best practices, analyses destination needs, and promotes peer learning among Destination Management Organisations. Its activities include surveys, reports, communication campaigns, thematic webinars, and twinning workshops that connect destinations facing…

Building on the results of the study “Sustainable Food in the Holiday Context”, the main objectives of this project were to develop effective tools for communicating the sustainability dimensions of the food offer to hotel guests and the impact various communication tools have to measure the awareness, attitudes and behavior of guests regarding sustainable food…

The aim of this project was to provide guidance to strengthen and share tourism data, including the development and implementation of indicators measuring and monitoring the sustainability of tourism, and to support the Tourism Sustainability Satellite Account in Croatia. Project period: 09/2022 – 11/2023Partners: Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, DIW EconProject Team: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Wolfgang…

The project developed an attractive and easy-to-understand label for the carbon footprint of package tours and their travel components for use in information and booking systems in the tourism industry. On the one hand, this increases the marketability of climate-friendly travel offers, since such offers are positively highlighted by the identification of the climate footprint.…

In the project, practical factsheets for scaling up sustainable food management in tourism were developed within the framework of the One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme and in close cooperation between UN Tourism, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Futouris. The tools refer to 1) Online Training Modules including Fundamentals, Sustainable Food Procurement, Sustainable Communication…

The process of digitalisation and intelligent data management are on the rise in tourism. The project supported 50 destinations in Europe on their way to smart tourism. Joining a team of 10 experts in tourism sustainability and data management, Prof. Lund-Durlacher supported the development of a toolkit for mastering data and provided coaching and capacity…