{"id":20997,"date":"2018-11-12T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:43:51","slug":"freiburg-sustainable-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/freiburg-sustainable-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Freiburg and the sustainable tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being in contact with the green economy<\/strong>: is what attracts thousands of people that every year visit Freiburg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the last years, near the different types of traditional tourism a new form of tourism has been developed: the sustainable tourism<\/strong>. And Freiburg is the proof.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Discovering the beauty of this small city into the hearth of the Black Forest (Baden W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany) that in the last years has become the first example of sustainable tourism.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sustainable tourism<\/h2>\n
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Picture of Alfredo via Flickr<\/div><\/div>\n

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Today, the term sustainable tourism <\/a>relates to the set of practices and choices that do not damage the environment and improve the economical and durable development<\/strong>, without damaging the local and social processes but contributing for the improvement of the quality of\u00a0life of the citizens<\/strong>. The sustainable tourism is a different way of traveling asking a particular attention for the choices taken during the holidays such as for example the transportation and the accommodation. In some cases, sustainability<\/strong> is the motivation to undertake a trip: what we call sustainable tourism<\/strong>. This is exactly the case of Freiburg<\/strong>, a small city in the south part of Germany, that starting from the 90\u2019 has begun to create a project with the aim to transform the city into a sustainable one.<\/p>\n

The sustainable city<\/h2>\n
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Mobility in Freiburg \u2013 picture of Thomas Meinersmann via Flickr<\/div><\/div>\n

The first step for creating a sustainable city<\/strong> was the realization and construction of the green buildings<\/strong> with a low environmental impact and with the introduction since 2011 of a standard of passive house<\/strong> for the residential buildings. Thanks to the thermal insulation,<\/strong> the buildings in Freiburg are able to save a huge amount of energy requested to heat and cool the internal environment. This is possible only thanks to the insulation, without any conventional heating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But not only, the project includes an urban mobility plan<\/strong> to improve the quality of the life and the welfare of the citizens without compromising the development of the city. The principal public transport is the bicycle<\/strong>. The city counts today only 500 km of bike lane<\/strong>, and more than 200 thousands of bicycles<\/strong>, the double of the quality of the autos circulating in Freiburg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the area of the city known as Village Solar<\/strong> uses the 1800 sunny hours per year to generate energy thanks to the use of 1800 solar panel, producing more than 4 times the energy that consumes. This is the most important solar energy project of Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The eco villages of Freiburg\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\t\t