Danube Travel Mart

A marketing instrument of particular importance for the Danube Tourist Commission is the Danube Travel Mart, a specialized tourism trade fair, which takes place every other year in a different member state. To date Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest, Regensburg, Bratislava, Linz, Ulm, Krems and Bucharest have played host to the Danube Travel Mart. The twelfth Danube Travel Mart was held in Jan 2004 in Vienna together with atb-Austrian Travel. This very successful co-operation will be repeated in January 2006 for the 13th Danube Travel Mart (Vienna).

This successful joint venture will be repeated in 2006 with the thirteenth Danube Travel Mart being held in conjunction with the atb in Vienna, January 29-31, 2006.

Shipping Conference

In 1997 the Danube Tourist Commission organized its first Danube Shipping Conference in Linz, where representatives of shipping companies, cruise operators, and tourist industry professionals had the opportunity to meet and exchange views. This successful initiative was followed up by meetings in Györ, Baden near Vienna, Bratislava, Passau, Belgrade, Vienna and Budapest.. Linz will host the 2006 Danube Shipping Conference.

Navigation Day

For the 1st celebration of Danube Day on June 29 2004 the Danube Tourist Commission cooperated closely with ICPDR.

To mark the start of the shipping season, Danube Navigation Day is celebrated with cross-border festivities every year on the last Sunday in April: 30 April 2006.The Danube Tourist Commission also helped to develop this marketing event together with other organizations.

Daily routine

Especially following the fall of the Iron Curtain , the Enlargement of the European Union in May 2004, and with the clearance of the river around Novi Sad, the headquarters of the Danube Tourist Commission became a central information point for all those interested in the Danube around the world. Journalists, tour operators, travel agencies, and ever increasing numbers of individual vacationmakers too turn to the Danube Tourist Commission for tips, advice and information.