What makes the Rhine Valley such a good sustainable tourism destination?
The Rhine environment is an incredible destination in itself: land and water merge creating extraordinary rich vegetation in every season, which attracts around 60 000 birds in the winter. We started by promoting sustainable tourism activities, together with local scientific organisations, for example guided bird-watching tours, walks through natural areas and canoeing tours along the river. To verify the pressures of tourism on the environment a new project was started which quantified the presence of tourists by evaluating the state of the environment with the use of specific environmental indicators and studying the connections between tourism and changes in biodiversity.
