With the briefing paper "Best Practice: Primary Forest Tourism", we would like to share the results of our research and the several project workshops in Romania with you.

We want to support all those people with practical advice, recommendations and checklists who want to develop and exploit the value creation opportunities related to the protection of primary and old-growth forests in Romania and the promotion of low-impact nature tourism.

Romania's primary and old-growth forests are unique, but little known and rarely visited. At the same time, many primary and old growth forest areas are disappearing due to logging for economic reasons and lack of adequate protection.

We want to promote both the preservation of these extremely valuable forests and positive regional economic development with the help of “forest-wilderness tourism”.

In the briefing paper, we provide interested actors and stakeholders in this tourism sector - such as tourism associations, tour operators, hiking guides, non-governmental organizations, accommodation providers, photo guides, etc. - with practical information to launch or develop their respective services and offers.

This includes:

• Success factors in wilderness tourism
• Checklist with quality criteria for hiking trails
• Checklist on needs of (international) travel operators 
• Detailed info on international best practice examples 

(We would like to thank the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and the Heidehof Foundation for their generous support, without which this project would not have been possible).