MMV

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

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