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:

• MMV1 - 2002: Vienna, Austria
• MMV2 - 2004: Rovaniemi, Finland
• MMV3 - 2006: Rapperswil, Switzerland
• MMV4 - 2008: Montecatini, Italy
• MMV5 - 2010: Wageningen, Netherlands
• MMV6 - 2012: Stockholm, Sweden
• MMV7 - 2012: Tallinn, Estonia
• MMV8 - 2016: Novi Sad, Serbia
• MMV9 - 2018: Bordeaux, France
• MMV10 - 2021: Lillehammer, Norway (online conference)
• MMV11 - 2022: Jūrmala, Latvia

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



All Conference Proceedings are archived in the MMV Proceedings Database.

Current Members of the Steering Committee

• Tetsuya Aikoh - Hokkaido University, Japan
• Arne Arnberger - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Monica Breiby - Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Robert Burns - West Virginia University, USA
• Jeoffrey Dehez - National Research Institute of Science and Technology, Bordeaux, France
• Peter Fredman (Chair), Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden
• Marcel Hunziker (Co-Chair) - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
• Yu-Fai Leung - North Carolina State University, USA
• Agita Līviņa - Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Latvia
• Teresa Magro - University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Catherine Pickering - Griffith University, Australia
• Ulrike Pröbstl - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Mart Reimann, University of Tallinn, Estonia
• Liisa Tyrväinen - Natural Resources Institute Finland

Wve gratefully acknowledge the support of former steering committee members

• David Cole - Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USA
• Paul F. J. Eagles - WCPA Task Force on Tourism and Protected Areas, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Don English - United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, USA
• David Fennell - Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock, University, Canada
• Martin Goossen - Wageningen University and Research Centre, Alterra, The Netherlands
• Andreas Götz - Director of the International Commission for the protection of the Alps (CIPRA), Schaan, Liechtenstein
• Wolfgang Haider - Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Paula Kankaanpää - Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland
• Robert E. Manning - School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA
• Andreas Muhar - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Susan Moore, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
• Guido Plassmann - Director of the Network of Alpine Protected Areas, France
• Mart Reimann, University of Tallinn, Estonia
• Jarkko Saarinen - University of Oulu, Finland
• Wolfgang Scherzinger - National Park Bavarian Forest, Germany
• Dominik Siegrist - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland
• Tuija Sievänen - Natural Resources Institute Finland
• Seija Tuulentie - Natural Resources Institute Finland
• Rauno Väisänen - Metsähallitus, Forest and Park Service, Finland

Previous Organisers