Please note that these are only proposed topics and sessions.
After the registration deadline and according the submitted abstracts, final sessions will be created. Session proposals by participants are also welcome!

1. Visitors and local community

• Managing visitor impacts
• Understanding visitors’ needs, preferences and behaviour
• Environmental awareness
• Local knowledge and skills
• Creating and co-creating memorable experiences in nature
• Innovative approaches to tour guiding
• Safety issues in outdoor recreation
• Natural areas accessibility
• Outdoor education and interpretation
• Experiential and health values of outdoor recreation

2. Tourism planning in protected and recreational areas

• Trails and routes modelling
• Onsite visitor monitoring systems
• Contemporary trends in outdoor activities
• Nature-based tourism products: ecotourism, geotourism, adventure tourism, wellness tourism
• Usage of ICT for recreational activities
• Commercialisation of nature
• Tourist infrastructure
• Commercial tourist packages
• Outdoor museums and nature centres
• Festival and events in protected areas
• Traffic and parking issues

3. Visitor management and nature conservation

• Assessment and evaluation models of protected areas
• Integrating outdoor recreation and nature conservation
• Raising environmental awareness through interpretation and storytelling
• Environmental and landscape aesthetics and design
• Cultural landscapes
• Geodiversity and geoheritage
• Inland waterways and environmental protection

4. Local/regional development and protected areas

• Stakeholders` approach in management of protected areas
• Financial planning and investments in protected areas
• Policies, methods and tools for protecting nature
• Economic impacts on local community
• Public involvement in planning processes
• Cross-border cooperation in protected and recreational areas
• Danube strategy
• (Trans national or national) recreational routes, trails and greenways