Presentation of tourism-card for Treptow-Köpenick

Right on time for Christmas and awaiting the tourism season 2007 the region Treptow-Köpenick becomes more and more attractive to guests with overnight stays, day-trippers and native Berliners. The Tourismusverein Berlin Treptow-Köpenick e.V. releases a treptow-köpenick-card in cooperation with the tourism-card team. The card guarantees considerable price advantages from 3 – 10 percent or free auxiliary services in hotels and restaurants, cafes and bars as well as many leisure time constitutions – especially in the sports, wellness and fitness area – or even shopping. The card is valid throughout Germany without time limit in all areas where the tourist-card already existst such as North-Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein and Brandenburg. In this way, this new product is associated with the capital and Brandenburg regions such as Dahme-lakes or Oder-Spree lake regions, where the touristic allowance already exists. Further regions such as the Ruppiner Land and the Barnimer Land as well as Märkisch-Oderland will follow. The tourist-card treptow-köpenick enables ist user (with partner and children) to have advantages in more than 120 touristic regions. All concrete allowances are listed in an information brochure. The tourist-card, including the brochure, can be purchased for 5,00 € at the Touristinformation at the Schlossplatz in Berlin-Köpenick (phone (030) 655 75 50) and at all attending companies. Bokkings can also be made online at  www.treptow-koepenick-card.de, to which all partners are linked.

Berlin, November 08, 2006

Contact: Michael Diehl, Division Manager Media and Events
Tourismusverein Berlin Treptow-Köpenick e.V.
phone (030) 65 48 43 43
fax (030) 65 48 43 44
events-presse@tkt-berlin.de

events-presse@tkt-berlin.de

Tourismusverein recommends routes to active people

Cycling, skating, walking, hiking and paddling becomes more and more popular even in our metropolis. Berlin Treptow-Köpenick as the capital’s greenest district with the largest water surface fulfils all  requirements for these sports perfectly. Only a few minutes on foot or a few S-Bahn stations from the city’s center you will find parks, forests, lakes and rivers inviting you to some active recreation. "This informative publication meets with our guests requests for those leisure time activities more and more", explains Katrin Reiche-Kurz, manager of the Tourismusverein Berlin Treptow-Köpenick.
The newly – in cooperation with the land surveying office - developed leisure time shows recommendable activity routes between Alt-Treptow and Hessenwinkel which is at the boarder to Brandenburg. Four routes between 12 and 36 km long are shown and described for cyclists, thereunder the „Mauer-Radweg“ which leads along the former Berlin Wall and has a length of 18 km from the Schlesische Busch at the Landwehrkanal to Bohnsdorf/Schönefeld. There are also many different route-suggestions for Nordic walkers and hikers. Those have a length of 5 to 25 km and the most beautiful and historic one leads around the Müggelsee. The best place to skate is the Treptower Park and Plänterwald (13 km), between  Alt-Köpenick and Müggelheim (16 km) or around the WISTA-area in Berlin-Adlershof (3 km round). The recommended tours for water hikers are between 3 km (Gosener canal) and 32 km (big tour around the Müggelberge) long. The new leisure time card shows monuments, marinas, lidos, in- and outdoor swimmingpools, restaurants, pubs, hotels, campsites, churches, cinemas and theaters, bycicle leasing, boat leasing, shipping jetties and parking lots in the district.  Detailed information and attractive pictures of sights along the tour through Berlin’s south-east from A as in Altstadt Köpenick or Archenhold Sternwarte to W as in WISTA or Wasserwerk Friedrichshagen (museum) are listed in this brochure. The folding map has a DIN A2 size and can be purchased at the Touristinformation at the Schlossplatz Berlin-Köpenick. Guests can also buy a new, attractive poster in DIN A1 size at a price of 2,00 €. It shows pictures of Treptow-Köpenick’s highlights as f. e. the baroque water palace or the Treptowers at the Spree. For further information please call (030) 65 48 43 43, send an e-Mail to: touristinfo@tkt-berlin.de or visit our homepage at www.berlin-tourismus-online.de.

Berlin, July 17, 2006

Contact: Michael Diehl, Division Manager Media and Events
Tourismusverein Berlin Treptow-Köpenick e.V.
phone: (030) 65 48 43 43
fax (030) 65 48 43 44
events-presse@tkt-berlin.de

The almost 800 year-old old town center of Köpenicker in Berlin’s south-east is developing to become the most popular destiny for leisure time captains with different kinds of boats. Ambiented by Spree and Dahme, which combine here, and only a few kilometers away from lakes surrounding the Müggelberge, the old town center island offers numerous attractions and good landing possibilities. The crew can go shopping, make use of the technical services and appreciate touristic offers as well.  At the Touristinformation at the Schlossplatz, visitors will find a large variety of offers of all information materials, souvenirs from Köpenick and Berlin as well as Tickets for events and public transportation. Newly, audio-guides can be rented. They allow individual guiding tours through Köpenick and every visitor can decide on his own tempo. The baroque water palace of the Hohenzollern invites to visit the museum of art on Tuesdays and Sundays. The historic city hall can be toured. A sculpture of the captain of Köpenick at the entrance and an exhibition on the ground floor remind of the story of the captain of Köpeick. His 100 anniversary will be celebrated this year with a lot of culture, f. e. at the “Hauptmannsfest” from October 12 - 16. Every Wednesday and Saturday at 11.00 a.m., the captain and his guardsmen perform the robbery of the treasury from 1906 in a 20-minute street spectacle in front of the city hall. The museum of local history Köpenick at the „Alte Markt“ is well worth seeing. During the last years a many-sided gastronomic scene has developed in Alt Köpenick with restaurants at the waterside. From the patio of the café-restaurant Kietz guest have a view of the large Dahme bay  „Frauentog“. At the Schlosscafe which is located at the same bay, visitors enjoy the historic ambiance of the palace. The hotels Courtyard by Marriott and Best Western vis-à-vis of the palace offer hospitality and a fantastic view. The old city center café and restaurant "Zum Dampfschiff" has summer orchards at the waterside. Restaurants "Spreeterrassen", "Freiheit 15" and "Lehmofen" are located at Berlin’s most famous river. And the "Waschhaus Alt Köpenick" has its attractive location directly at the Spree as well. The attractive arrangement of the old town center’s public waterside area is proceeding. The representative promenade at the Luisenhain was extensively redesigned. The second area will be changed soon. The paths at the englisch landscape park on the Köpenick palace island are presently being reconstructed and the waterside area of the Frauentog will also be redesigned this year. Here, at the future lake bridge, a multifunctional building for water tourists with showers and toilets as well as bus and water bars is planned. Due to the building measurements the raft there will no longer be available to the Tourismusverein in July. But many other guest jetties – which can be recognized by the „Yellow Wave“ are inviting to stay. Even if you don’t have an own boat, you have the possibility to see Berlin-Köpenick’s old town center from the water. The solarboatpavillon and Aquaris Wassertouristik at the Spindlergasse offer boats of all different kinds and sizes for a round trip. Passenger ships land there a couple of times a day vis-à-vis to the city hall. Those are definitely the best conditions for water fans who feel like seeing more of Berlin. More information at the Tourismusverein, please call 030 - 655 75 50 or at touristinfo@tkt-berlin.de

Berlin, June 28, 2006

Contact: Michael Diehl, Divisional Manager Media and Events
Tourismusverein Berlin Treptow-Köpenick e.V.
phone: (030) 65 48 43 43
fax (030) 65 48 43 44
events-presse@tkt-berlin.de