Tourism Voices from the Achterhoek, in the Netherlands, explore how local communities experience tourism and how they would like tourism to develop.
Stories from this region include the perspectives of local residents, entrepreneurs, young people and other groups involved in tourism.
The Netherlands, Achterhoek
When the farm stopped paying its way, she started a small campsite instead — and it's doing better than the farm ever did. Now she wonders whether farming, her husband's life's work, will be the thing they eventually give up.
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Tourism has been good for business — a busier bakery, a new gallery, a gift shop that wasn't there before — but a planned freight railway through the nature reserve threatens the one thing his guests actually come for: the peace and quiet.
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Most visitors to the Achterhoek's nature reserves are careful and curious. It's the mountain bikers — riding off-trail, no bell in sight — who keep her organisation busy explaining the same rules again and again.
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A leader in the local Turkish community on tourists as welcome guests, new shops and a swimming pool the town didn't have before — and a tradition of hospitality, he says, that's far older than tourism itself.
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New neighbours from the west, a busier card club, a nursing home that keeps growing — she's glad of most of it. What she'd really like is for the dial-a-bus they cancelled years ago to come back.
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