Nature Parks and Regional Development

"Who is doing it? Who is paying for it? What is gained?" – Nature Parks and Regional Development

The Nature Park Südsteirisches Weinland was the ideal place for the international convention "Who is doing it? Who is paying for it? What is gained?" – Nature Parks and Regional Development. Landesrat Johann Seitinger and LAbg. Peter Tschernko welcomed on the 13th of November 2003 in the Bildungshaus Schloss Seggau the 140 participants from six nations.

The 2-day convention devoted itself among other things to the following questions: Which role do Nature Parks play for the regional development? Are they to be seen as an engine of the regional development?

The Nature Parks have defined the regional development as one of four columns in their policy paper, which intends to put impulses for regional development in the Nature Parks and also to raise the value as well as to protect the quality of life of the residents. To what extent and on which way these plans succeed at home and abroad, did become the main subject of the convention, which was organized by the Association of Austrian Nature Parks, the Netzwerk-Servicestelle LEADER+ and the Naturparkakademie Steiermark.

Welcome speech by Landesrat Johann Seitinger

LAbg. Peter Tschernko, Nature Park Südsteirisches Weinland

Franz Handler, Association of Austrian Nature Parks

Referees and topics of the Convention:
Franz Handler, Association of Austrian Nature Parks
Mag. Luis Fidlschuster, Netzwerk-Servicestelle LEADER+
LAbg. Peter Tschernko, Nature Park Südsteirisches Weinland

Welcome speech by Landesrat Johann Seitinger

Referees:		Topics:
Dipl.-Ing. Marelli Asamer-Handler ÖAR-Regionalberatung GmbH, Graz		Regionalentwicklung als Kulturlandschaftsschutz der besonderen Art – Naturparkprodukte aus Österreich
DI Thomas Böhm Regionalmanagement Burgenland		Regionalwirtschaftliche Erfolge durch neue Angebote in den burgenländischen Naturparken
Dr. Wolfgang Müllebner Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Abteilung Naturschutz		Zusammenspiel – künstliche und natürliche Erlebniswelt am Beispiel des Naturparks Heidenreichstein
Ulrich Köster GF des Verbandes der Deutschen Naturparke		Regionalentwicklung in deutschen Naturparken
Luis Pöltl Nature Park Pöllauer Tal		Erfolgreiche Direktvermarktung im Naturpark Pöllauer Tal
Dieter Popp FUTOUR Umwelt-, Tourismus- und Regionalberatung GmbH & Co.KG, München		Ein Naturpark als regionaler Wirtschaftsimpuls am Beispiel der Vermarktung von bäuerlichen Qualitätsprodukten
DI Gerhard Schlögl Nature Park Landseer Berge		Der Naturpark Landseer Berge als Impulsgeber einer Region
Dr. Dominik Siegrist Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil		Trends, Potenziale und Gästebedürfnisse des naturnahen Tourismus
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Weixlbaumer Universität Wien, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung		Regionalentwicklung beginnt im Kopf. Der Naturpark Ötscher-Tormäuer als Modellregion nachhaltiger Entwicklung?

Impressions of the convention:
140 participants from six nations	Mag. Luis Fidlschuster, Netzwerk-Servicestelle LEADER+

Dr. Wolfgang Müllebner, Amt der NÖ Landesregierung	Dr. Dominik Siegrist, Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil

DI Gerhard Schlögl, Nature Park Landseer Berge	Ulrich Köster, Verbandes Deutscher Naturparke

Press conference "Who is doing it? Who is paying for it? What is gained?" – Nature Parks and Regional Development

From the left to the right: Franz Handler, Association of Austrian Nature Parks, LAbg. Peter Tschernko,
Nature Park Südsteirisches Weinland, Landesrat Johann Seitinger, Hofrat Dr. Josef Puntigam,
Fachabteilung 13C Naturschutz.

Preceding the convention "Who is doing it? Who is paying for it? What is gained?" was the project „Advancement of the regional development in the Nature Parks“. The results were presented by LR Johann Seitinger at the press conference on the 13th of November 2003 in the Bildungshaus Schloss Seggau together with a new brochure:

"Who is doing it? Who is paying for it? What is gained?" – Nature Parks and Regional Development

LR Seitinger betonte die regionalwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen im Besonderen der steirischen Naturparke. So ist der Tourismus der Sektor mit den größten direkten Auswirkungen. Die durch die von über

LR Seitinger presented the regional-economic effects, in particular of the Styrian Nature Parks. The tourism is the sector with the biggest effects. The added value by the 5 million guests is estimated by experts on more than 100 million euro. So the Nature Park tourism is an important market segment in the Austrian tourism: The visitor’s portion of the nature tourism is about 30%. HR Dr. Puntigam showed the importance of the platform „Nature Parks and tourism“, which has stronger cooperation between these both areas as its goal.

Presentation of the new brochure by LR Johann Seitinger.

Presentation of the “Nature Park Specialties Christmas 2003“: Franz Handler, LAbg. Peter Tschernko, Landesrat Johann Seitinger, Hofrat Dr. Josef Puntigam

In the agricultural area additional possibilities exist, in the direct marketing as well as in the common marketing of Nature Park Specialties. In the future an Austria-wide product line from Nature Parks should help to protect the variety of typical Austrian landscapes.

LAbg Tschernko referred on two projects in the Nature Park Südsteirisches Weinland: the project "Schafweide" and the project „From the meadow on the table“, which shows the connection between products and man-made landscape. Cooperation with nature conservation, tourism and agriculture is one of the responsibilities of the Association of Austrian Nature Parks. Franz Handler reported about the first meeting of the responsible persons of the federal countries to the standardization of the term “Nature Park” to reach a quality guarantee and to lay the foundation for the acknowledgment of the Nature Parks by the IUCN in category V.

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