Badges for tourist achievements in Western Europe?

10/7/2019 1:06:06 PM

We managed to gather short list of badges/patches from around the world in this Outdoors SE question: Badges for tourists achievements/quests.

Quoting the part about Austria and Germany:

This concept is known in German as “Wandernadel” and implemented by a
lot of local tourist assiciations, usually in the form of a “book” you
can stamp at designated stamp stations on interesting locations.
Examples are Vienna, Schladming, Gastein, but there
are many more if you google the term.

(The same seems to be true in parts of Germany, there’s at least a
Harzer Wandernadel.)

7/20/2012 8:52:22 AM

There are similar organizations to Polish Tourism and Sightseeing Society (PTTK).

  • German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV) is equivalent to PTTK in Germany
  • Austrian Alpine Club (Österreichischer Alpenverein, OEAV) is equivalent in Austria (they even have a division in Poland)
  • In Czech Republic there is Czech Tourist Club (Czech: Klub českých turistů, KČT)
  • In Slovakia there is Slovak Tourist and Skiers Club (Slovak: Klub slovenských turistov a lyžiarov, KSTL)
  • In Austria and Germany there are NGOs called “Friends of Nature” (German: Naturfreunde). Links: Austria, Germany

I don’t know about badges in Germany and Austria, but according to some forums, Czech and Slovak organizations do award similar badges, but those are more requiring. You’d need to hike a lot of kilometers in short time.

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