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I-DEST.COM Turns One Year Old

The i-dest.com website officially launched on 15 January 2025. This summary presents the key events and development milestones of I-DEST's first year in chronological order – from its launch to its international presence. Thank you to all the partners and users who helped shape I-DEST's first year with us; we will continue to build on this foundation in the coming period.

Exactly one year ago, i-dest.com was launched with the ambition of supporting sustainable destination management with tangible, data-driven tools that are practical for everyday use. The past twelve months have been filled with intensive development, continuous learning, and expanding professional collaborations: together with destinations, tourism businesses, professional organisations, and international partners, we have shaped the I-DEST ecosystem.

2025. január 15, Hévíz. A CROSSDEST projekt nyitókonferenciáján jelentettük be a platform indulását
15 January 2025, Hévíz. We announced the launch of the platform at the opening conference of the CROSSDEST project.

This year was not only about technological advancements but also about community building: workshops, pilots, international introductions, and new communication platforms helped make I-DEST a comprehensible and useful tool for more and more stakeholders in more and more countries. The multilingual dashboards, monitoring and benchmarking solutions, service provider self-assessment, and e-learning platform all serve the same goal: to make sustainability not just an expectation but a measurable, improvable, and communicable practice.

So, what happened over the past year, and what developments are we currently supporting to promote sustainable tourism internationally?

January 2025: Uploading test data – thanks to the Miskolc destination for being our partner in this. 

15 January 2025: The official launch of the i-dest.com website

22-23 January 2025: Two-day workshop with members of the Alföld Slow Association on the opportunities offered by I-DEST

17 April 2025: I-DEST.com's internal dashboards became available in 20 languages, and the public interface is now accessible in practically every language.

23 April 2025: We published our Standard Destinations Kit , a guide that provides a detailed overview of the destination opportunities offered by I-DEST.

May 2025: CROSSDEST project partners – the destination management organisations of Hévíz, Sárvár, Murska Sobota, and Lendava – began professional testing of the platform.

4 May 2025: The I-DEST LinkedIn page was launched.

20 May 2025: I-DEST made it to the top 10 start-ups in the PilotsINN Hungary start-up competition.

25 May 2025: The first phase of the monitoring platform was completed, providing benchmarking tools for destinations and businesses.

29 June 2025: The I-DEST blog was launched.

24 July 2025: A development on the service provider/destination dashboard was completed, enabling destination-level event calendar planning and joint communication with businesses. The second phase of the monitoring platform was also completed.

5 August 2025: The Hungarian version of the Standard Destinations Kit was completed, providing a detailed overview of I-DEST's services for destinations.

15 August 2025: I-DEST was already in use in six countries.

6 September 2025: The I-DEST World English-language Facebook page was launched.

28-29 September 2025: I-DEST was introduced at the Green Destinations international conference in Montpellier.

4 October 2025: The service provider self-assessment platform was launched in 20 languages, enabling the measurement of the Sustainable Tourism Index for all businesses.

31 October 2025: The I-DEST e-learning platform was launched, offering online sustainable tourism training in three languages for interested users.

22 November 2025: We presented the sustainability research conducted with I-DEST at the National Strategic Research Institute's conference in Székelyudvarhely.

15 January 2026: Currently, our database includes nearly 300 destinations and settlements from 19 countries, of which 134 are accessible to the general public. In addition, 157 attractions, 25 local producers, 8 catering establishments, and 21 accommodations are available on the public interface – though the number of platform users is roughly three times this amount. 

The developments of the past year would not have been possible without the support of the CROSSDEST Slovenian-Hungarian INTERREG project and the continuous collaboration with its project partners. Thank you!

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