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J. Pointl, Nina Kolowratnik:
"Fluchtraum Österreich: On the Hospitality of Austrian Tourism Establishments towards Asylum Seekers";
in: "Places for People", E. Delugan-Meissl, S. Dreher, C. Muhr (ed.); issued by: Biennale Architettura 2016, Austrian Pavilion; Bechtle Verlag & Druck, Spillern, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-200-04594-1, 13 - 15.

At first sight, accommodating refugees in tourism establishments seems an obvious idea. In Austria this approach to housing asylum seekers is not a new phenomenon, but has a history going back 60 years, and stands for a national asylum policy that handles the provision of space for people who have been forced to flee as a short-term issue. Yet, the apparently seamless transition of former tourism facilities into places of refuge is met by the overlapping of two radically different concepts - the voluntary escape from everyday life of the tourist and the search for aneveryday life of a migrant who has been forced to flee.
To what extent does Austria, as a nation of tourism, apply the basic rule of hospitality - "the guest is the guest" - in the area of asylum policy and why is it urgently necessary to regard these two groups of guests separately and to understand and recognise their different (living) needs while still offering both the same hospitality?