Holiday park

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A holiday park is a tourist facility that has the character of its own village.

Types

  • Holiday villages that mostly consist of single or double bungalows and have no leisure facilities worth mentioning.
  • Apartment complexes with fully equipped residential units in larger structures that have only very few leisure facilities.
  • Holiday parks consisting of a hotel, an apartment and a bungalow section or groups of holiday homes with 3–12 apartments. These parks have at least one shop and restaurant, as well as a wider range of leisure and entertainment facilities.
  • Second-generation holiday parks, which correspond to older holiday parks in terms of accommodation, but have significantly more beds (at least 1,800 beds) and a richer range of leisure and entertainment options. In the center they usually have a subtropical swimming paradise and a shopping mall.

Development phases

Four phases can be distinguished in the development of large holiday projects in Germany.

  • Preliminary stage until 1968: Apart from a holiday home planned by the NS organization Kraft durch Freude , which was never completed, the construction of large holiday projects in Germany only began in the 1950s. The projects implemented are classified as holiday villages . The number of beds in these projects was mostly below 400 beds and they had no recreational facilities worth mentioning.
  • Boom phase from 1969-1973: a total of 32 large projects with significantly higher bed capacities were implemented. In addition to isolated holiday villages and large hotels, first-generation apartment complexes and holiday parks in particular were built using high-rise buildings. They mostly concentrate on the former zone border area ( Baltic Sea coast and Harz ). Examples of large holiday projects built during the boom are Damp2000 and Heiligenhafen.
  • Subsequent stage 1974-1989: As a result of the negative effects (overcapacities and landscape damage) caused by the large projects implemented in the boom phase, significantly fewer (36 projects in 16 years) and smaller ones (only a fifth of the projects have over 1000 beds) projects - mostly holiday villages - built. The main focus of the construction is in the regions of Eifel and North Hesse .
  • Renewal phase in the 1990s: In this last phase for the time being, a trend towards significantly larger holiday projects with well over 1000 beds is noticeable. The resulting large-scale projects are mostly classified as 'second generation holiday parks'.

Representative

literature

  • C. Becker: New tendencies in the establishment of major tourism projects in Germany. In: Geographical Rundschau. No. 2, 2000, pp. 28-33.
  • A. Draheim: Holiday centers as a traffic-friendly, environmentally friendly and socially responsible solution. 2002, ISBN 3-7983-1905-7 .
  • P. Voßebürger, A. Weber: Planning handling of large leisure projects . Components for conflict management using the example of a 'Center Parcs' project. (= Dortmund contributions to spatial planning. Volume 86). 1998, ISBN 3-88211-105-4 .

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