Ecotourism in Soomaa National Park in Estonia

1. Ecotourism in
Soomaa National Park in Estonia
Aivar Ruukel

2. About me
1993 Ecotourism
1995 Business in
Soomaa NP
2006 University of
Life Sciences
2011 PhD Student

3. I will talk about:
1) Soomaa National Park
2) our private business: soomaa.com
3) collaboration at local and global levels

4. 1993-2013
20
. years

6. Soomaa NP

8. Soomaa :
best preserved largest peatbogs
of Estonia

10. PAN Park – European Wilderness

12. EDEN – Destination of Excellence

13. Soomaa.com -
is private tourism company
Organizing tourist experiences:
- canoeing on rivers and
- walking on peat-bogs

15. Walking by wearing bogshoes
is called Bogshoeing !

16. Bogshoes:
old footwear,
rediscovered

17. BOG-SHOES
BOG-SHOEING

19. Bog restoration
Workshops...

20. ...blocking soviet era man-made
drainage ditches by creating peat dams

21. ... Conservation Holidays !

27. Dugout Canoe Building Workshops

33. Contact us!
Www.soomaa.com
info@soomaa.com