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View of the Slow Travel map of Constance (2024). Screenshot: umap.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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For the winter semester 2023\/2024, I was appointed as a guest lecturer at the University of Constance. As part of the “Schl\u00fcsselqualifikation N<\/a>“, four seminar days were available over two weekends to introduce the topic of “sustainable travel” to participants from various courses of study. In the seminar, the students learnt about the green travel concepts “Slow Travel” and “Micro Adventures”.

This content was supplemented by contributions from invited speakers. Nadine H\u00f6lzl, Sustainability Manager at Regio Konstanz-Bodensee-Hegau e.V., gave an insight into her work. The “Regio<\/a>” aims to promote tourism that is orientated towards environmentally friendly principles. Members of the cross-border Regio association, which covers the western Lake Constance region, are the district of Constance, 28 municipalities in the German-Swiss holiday region and other supporting members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikolaus Ricken, teacher and passionate individual traveller, reported as a Slow Traveller on his long-term trip by bike through Europe and South America as well as by catamaran from Europe to the Caribbean. He had already told me about his sailing trip in an interview<\/a> in 2022, but it was even more exciting to listen to his diary entries in person and see the photo slide show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students University of Konstanz, SQ-Seminar “Sustainable Travel” WS23\/24 (December 2023). Picture: Anika Neugart.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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However, the main project of the seminar, which took up the most time and effort, was the joint development of a Slow Travel map for the city of Constance. This is now available digitally for all interested parties via the map service Umap, which uses Openstreetmap data as a basis: to the map<\/a> (no app required). The map is a contribution to sustainable tourism in Constance and provides the following information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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