On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, MU Vienna hosted a panel discussion on "Climate neutral" travel offers organized in cooperation with the NGOs respect (Institute for Integrative Tourism and Development), Naturfreunde Internationale and Klimabündnis Österreich. Recognizing the interrelationships between climate change and tourism as outlined in the UN reports:

Invitation to Panel Discussion

Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 18:00
MODUL University Vienna
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna

How important is climate protection to the customer when choosing a travel offer?  And to which offers does the travel industry react?

MODUL University Vienna, in close collaboration with the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien’s Institute of Tourism and Leisure Studies, investigated the influence of residents’ acceptance of the sport mega event – the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Overall, the advocates had a slight majority of 55% in May 2008, just a few weeks before the beginning of the tournament. Attitudes towards positive effects on the community and national levels show the strongest impact on the degree of acceptance.