MODUL University Vienna (MU) has recently become a new member of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES).

TIES promotes ecotourism, which is defined as "responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people,"

Prof. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher and Anja Hergesell participated in this year’s BEST EN Think Tank on „The Importance of Values in Sustainable Tourism“. The four day conference (June 15-18) took place on the Singapore campus of James Cook University and featured keynote speeches, research presentations and break-out sessions devoted to the development of an online wiki on the conference theme. Dagmar and Anja presented the research findings of a study on the female workforce in the Austrian hospitality market.

From June 30 until July 1, 2009, Anja Hergesell represented MU Vienna at the first conference on European Universities for a sustainable and competitive tourism.

The 5th appointment with MODUL University Vienna seminars deals with the environment surrounding the University itself: the Wienerwald!
Our guest speaker, Mr. Christian Diry, will introduce the concept of biosphere reserves in describing the origin and the development of the requirements for this UNESCO predicate. He will use the Biosphere Wienerwald’s projects as vivid example.
The seminar will take place on May 15, 2009 from 2.45 p.m .

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?

The next seminar on the Latest Trends and Innovations in Tourism will take place on Friday, 31 October 2008, and begins at 2:45 p.m.

Our guest speaker, Mr Graham Miller, is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the School of Management of the University of Surrey.
Mr Miller undertook his postgraduate studies at the University of Surrey, completing his PhD in 2000; His research interests are: sustainable tourism, business ethics, corporate social responsibility indicators and accessible tourism.