History and Background

The United Nations designated the year 2002 as The International Year of Eco-tourism as well as The Year of Mountains. As a contribution to both, the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Landscape Management at BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and its partners organised the first International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas in Vienna, Austria.
The first conference was such great success, so the idea of follow-up conferences was supported.

Since then, 10 MMV conferences were hosted by differnt partners across Europe:



The 12th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV12) will be held at Camp Reinsehlen, Schneverdingen, Germany on September 2-5, 2024. For more information, please visit: www.mmv12.de/en

Call to host MMV13: The MMV Steering Committee seeks a host institution for the 13th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV) in 2026.





All Conference Proceedings are archived in the MMV Proceedings Database.

Current Members of the Steering Committee


Wve gratefully acknowledge the support of former steering committee members



Previous Organisers

ILEN METLA HSR


IBIMET
Wageningen UR Frilufts forskning


Tallinn University


University of Novi Sad


IRSTEA Bordeaux - LabEx COTE


Norwegian University of Life Sciences