Alternative Tourism


Inserting the hidden and the invisible places into the public awareness: alternative tourism


A tourism plan for Ein Hawd

In our attempt to put Ein Hawd on the map and to boost its economical development, we have elaborated a tourism plan for the village.

The plan brings into play our professional knowledge as map makers and public lobbyers with local potentials, such as mastering delicious agriculture groves, hospitality skills, special geographical and natural conditions, all in combination with national physical and cultural touristic networks and agendas.

Moreover, our plan introduces the development of an agro-tourism market, a small hotel, a resort and small entrepreneurial businesses.


















The introduction text on Ein Hawd tourism plan


Welcome to Ein Hawd




The village you see today was founded in 1948 and has been taking shape since then. As an unrecognised village, with no legal existence, it received no services of any kind from the state. All the buildings, including the mosque, school, and houses, were built by the villagers themselves and were often under threat of demolition.


After a long campaign, the village was finally recognised and given an official ‘master plan’ in 2004. However, this plan is unduly restrictive in terms of area and land use, so FAST and the villagers have created an alternative one. The FAST master plan celebrates the initiative and creativity of the villagers, by providing a viable, liveable and sustainable blueprint

for the future, anchored in the reality of the current situation.


Key elements are the restoration of the traditional landscape, with its terraces of fruit trees, the creation of public space in the inflatable Golden Heart Pavilion, and the initiation of a new economic infrastructure, featuring a market and tourist resort.




For more information contact FAST

 

Contributors


Malkit Shoshan


Sharif Waked (interior exhibition design)


Inflate (production)