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, 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. The second conference was held in Rovaniemi, Finland, in spring 2004, the third one in Rapperswil, Switzerland, in autumn 2006, the fourth one in Montecatini, Italy in autumn 2008, the fifth one in Wageningen, Netherlands in spring 2010, the sixth MMV in Stockholm, Sweden in Summer 2012, the seventh MMV in Tallinn, Estonia in August 2014, the eighth MMV in Novi Sad, Serbia in August 2016 and the ninth MMV in Bordeaux, France in August 2018.

The upcoming MMV 10 will be hosted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences as a digital conference from August 16^th-19^th 2021
More information can be found here or directly on the conference website



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
• Robert Burns - West Virginia University, USA
• Jeoffrey Dehez - National Research Institute of Science and Technology, Bordeaux, France
• Don English - United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, USA
• Peter Fredman, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden
• Martin Goossen - Wageningen University and Research Centre, Alterra, The Netherlands
• Marcel Hunziker - Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape Research, Switzerland
• Yu-Fai Leung - (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Teresa Magro - University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Andreas Muhar - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Catherine Pickering - Griffith University, Australia
• Ulrike Pröbstl - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Mart Reimann, University of Tallinn, Estonia
• Dominik Siegrist - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland
• Liisa Tyrväinen - Natural Resources Institute Finland

We gratefully acknowlege 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
• David Fennell - Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock, University, Canada
• 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
• 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
• Tuija Sievänen - Natural Resources Institute Finland
• Seija Tuulentie - Natural Resources Institute Finland
• Rauno Väisänen - Metsähallitus, Forest and Park Service, Finland

Previous Organisers