yet, please feel free to wander. Here’s some orientation how you – and I – make best use of this site. It is a portfolio of my journeys through life, both professionally and in private – who can tell the difference when tourism is both your profession and passion. In the travel section, I curated…
Nice to meet you
In 1974 my parents chose to name me Marcus Bauer, the C was important to them and my family name Bauer – in English farmer – blends the image of a common man with skills to work the world and live in harmony with nature. That’s enough not to ask a royal title. Modern times…
Digitale Ökologie – SR Fernsehen
On Sept. 1st, 2021, Saarländischer Rundfunk visited us to talk about digital ecology. Background: in cooperation with MedienKompetenzZentrum of Landesmedienanstalt Saar, we hosted a workshop to talk about the ecological effects of digitalisation.
Choosing the winners – Jury Member “International Travel Awards 2021”
Just got this nice mail: “Dear Marcus Gotthold Bauer/ respontour,How are you doing ? It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that your jury account with International Travel Awards 2021 has been created successfully.We have scheduled our Jury Review from 16-August to 30-August.We are pleased to inform you have we have received over 2,000+ Nominees during year…
Souvenirs
“For me, home is …” That was the challenge of a local photo contest. And I thought:Home is probably where the type case hangs in which I keep the souvenirs from all over the world with which I associate stories: the vulture feather from the rewildering station in Bosnia, the silver spoon from the citadel…
Hands
This is a photo spread about one of our most intriguing tools: Hands. It always fascinated me to take a close up look at their transformative power and the interplay of softness and strength, of miscroscopic fineness and brute power. The pictures have been taken during various trips around India, they origin in West-Bengal, the…
Screening tourism issues
Everybody does it, but few reflect it. Tourism is omnipresent, but mostly the glossy side. We thought that film is a good way of showing the complexity, the harm and all the good tourism can do. So we started a cooperation with a local cinema showing background documentaries and opening the floor for discussion amongst…
Conserving local stories
All places are rich, particularly when it comes to the stories local people can share. But how to preserve this valuable heritage? In the Eurodistrict Sarre-Moselle – covering parts of Saarland in Germany and of Lorraine in France – many landmarks are visible from far, forming a network of view points. What do they mean…
Excursions
There is no better way to learn than visiting the places where the action is. Global tourism development is rapid and dynamic. Let’s go discuss with the shapers, visit innovative new concepts and projects and get a first hand feeling and understanding of the site. Our input is the dough to create management concepts that…
Russia
Apiculture, the science of bees. That was the tour motto that led me to Russia in 2019 to develop a thematic trip about one of the most important animals on the planet. It was the second encounter with that fascinating country, after a visit to Kaliningrad Oblast in 2005, where I coached an international student…
The Baltics
“In search of Eden”, I came to Estonia in 2014 for a press trip, visiting the country’s Nationalparks and EDEN-Destinations. It was my first encounter with the Habjaas, the local variety of the dugout-canoes, that in 2020 became part of the UNESCO World Heritage of living traditions. The slow floating through the wide and rich…
India
The journey started in 2005. My first bed-tea being served, a Durga-Puja in Delhi, the mindblowing buzz of Calcutta and the peaceful starry nights on the bench next to the mud huts in the world’s largest mangrove forest. That was the first week. What a land of contrasts. One year before, I vouched never to…