| Good Practice Innovation Sheet |
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| Items |
Description |
| 1. WHO |
| Key people and organisations (initiator, leader, partners) |
Masia la Vileta (Sant Hilari Sacalm – Girona) |
| The homestead The Vileta is a traditional Catalan rural house with an extremely pleasant environment. Built in the 14th century, customers will succumb at the charm of the farmhouse and its beautiful surroundings. |
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| Key Figures |
Surface |
Inhabitants |
Tourism arrivals |
Tourism nights |
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No data |
No data |
| 2. WHY |
| Reason for taking the good practice action |
Capacity to take advantage of the forest and its materials to create an ecotourism experience by building treehouses in the middle of the woods. |
| Issues and challenge |
Isolated area with a lot of environmental resources but no ideas for creating new business and region development regarding ecotourism. |
| 3. HOW |
| Methods /steps / tools used (to develop the good practice) |
Using the natural resources from the area (mostly forestry area) and building treehouses with local materials and ecological water systems as well. |
| 4. RESULT |
| Specific/measurable results, benefits |
10 different treehouses in a widespread area with la Vileta acting as the central hosting point. They have almost all treehouses booked for the entire year one year before. |
| Recognitions (e.g. awards) |
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| 5. REFLECTION |
| Lessons learned |
It is possible to create a successful ecotourism business by only using wood resources and emplacing them in the middle of the nature, which brings a huge added value to the project. |
| Challenges met |
Technical difficulties when building, hard to find balance between wellbeing and natural materials (no chemical products). |
| Critical success factors |
Comfort of the costumers, provide a complete peaceful experience, to be completely surrounded by nature. |
| 6. MORE |
| web-references, documents |
http://www.cabanesalsarbres.com/en |
Treehouses in Catalonia
