New Insights for Tourism.
Photo by Nicolas Schebitz on Unsplash

Welcome to the NIT! For more than 30 years the NIT has been researching issues from tourism and related topics. On the basis of our research, we also develop tourism strategies within consultancy projects. On these pages you will find information about the Institute and our work. Please contact us for further information.

Selected Projects

ReTour – Regenerative Tourism in the Baltic Sea Region

The ReTour project, which involves regions around the Baltic Sea, is a three-year collaboration aimed at developing new methods for regenerative tourism. The project partners will explore, test, and share knowledge with the aim of developing a method for how places can create experiences that contribute to making a better place for both nature and people. […] Read more

Cross-Re-Tour

The EU project Cross-Re-Tour supports the innovation of sustainable and digital processes in companies in the tourism industry. The project provides access to knowledge, tools and innovation and brings tourism businesses together with pioneers of sustainable and digital change outside the tourism industry. In this way, Cross-Re-Tour aims to break down the barriers between sectors […] Read more

Sustainable Mobility in rural tourist regions

SMARTA-NET is a European initiative of the European Commission under DG Move that aims to promote sustainable and resilient mobility solutions in rural areas. Tourism plays an important role here. A consortium of five different countries is working on the project, besides NIT these are MemEx (Italy), E40 (Hungary), TIS (Portugal) and Panteia (Netherlands). […] Read more

“Tackling Climate Change” – Project wins 2nd prize at the German Tourism Award 2022

The 2nd prize of the jury of the German Tourism Association (DTV) goes this year to TourismusMarketing Niedersachsen GmbH. "The adaptation strategies for tourism in Lower Saxony are a trend-setting initiative of a state tourism organisation that takes a structured look at the consequences of climate change on tourism and sensitises and supports travel regions and service providers with a remarkable range of tools," said Norbert Kunz. "An important process has been initiated here, because the question has long been not whether climate change will affect German tourism in particular, but how and where." In addition to preparatory online workshops, four regional conferences have been held in the near past, at which the respective local actors were able to present topic-related practical examples. Now the final conference will take place at the beginning of July. […] Read more

Wadden Sea Tourism Radar

Together with the WWF, the NIT has developed the "Wadden Sea Tourism Radar" as a component of the Interreg project PROWAD LINK: a guideline that supports locations in making tourism development in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site sustainable and nature-compatible and in identifying undesirable developments at an early stage. […] Read more

more Selected Projects …

News

SMARTA-NET final conference

The SMARTA-NET final conference took place in Brussels on 23/24 October 2024. The event was entitled ‘Shaping the future of rural mobility’. On day 2, Bente Grimm gave a presentation on ‘Enhancing mobility in support of rural tourism, with particular reference to “tourism without my car”’. The presentation was part of the session 'Advancing rural mobility'. […] Read more