Texel’s tourism is all about beds and accommodation. An often-heard doubt about sustainable tourism is that the sector’s income is at risk. However, designs are available to make those more sustainable, in contact with the islanders, the landscape and the seasons. But all such designs have different impact, not only in their footprint but also in social aspects as community, safety, (dis)connectedness, freedom, flexibility etc. How may a sustainable tourist accommodation system function and be achieved? And what is its relation to self-sufficiency?
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2015 CHAPTER 1: Working with Millennium Goals of the United Nations
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Accomodate community Texel 2015
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Interviews Accommodate community
Interviews While preparing to visit Texel and setting up our team’s strategy, in addition to the literature review, interviews were also taken. Two types of candidates were chosen; a (former) inhabitant of Texel, to introduce us to the everyday life of the islanders and give us an insight on what is going on there, and a graduation student on sustainable accommodation to suggest and provide… -
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Summary Field Research Accommodate Community
Learning from De Koog and an interview with the owner of a sustainable campingHaving to design a system to accommodate the community in Texel, on field research on the current situation had to take place. Before coming to Texel, along with the literature study and the online research, we contacted some locals related to the accommodation sector in order to interview them upon our arrival. What we were interested in was the characteristics of the existing buildings and…