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SHOWTIME - FULL PROGRAM AND HIGH SPIRITS ON DAY 2
Day 2 traditionally challenges all the senses: first a full workload, then a captivating evening program.
This year, too, the DCHH snack breakfast awaited the early birds at 8 AM. And as early as 9 AM, the first six of 18 two-hour sessions and workshops began – covering topics such as Sustainability & Public Welfare, Dealing with Polarities, Communication in Tourism, Interacting with People, Top or Flop – Experiences from Ten Years of DestinationCamp, as well as at the Magic RoundTable on Professional Understanding and Ethical Questions in an increasingly digitized work environment.
During the day, the topics were mixed into a colorful program tableau and assigned to six 'travel groups.' This was because, due to the prevailing Corona regulations, participants, unlike in previous years, could not choose a new topic after each break but had to remain in their initially chosen travel group. By checking into the first session, they essentially booked a package tour with a tour guide and three thematic modules – the fourth will be added on the third day in the form of a scenario workshop.
During the journey on Wednesday, the moderator teams, each consisting of two thematic specialists and often with an additional impulse provider, joined the travel group and guided them through the topic portfolio without participants having to change rooms. Nevertheless, the seats, tables, pens, and microphones were disinfected by the tour guides from the netzvitamine team during each break to ensure the highest possible hygiene during DestinationCamp.
TO THE DCHH EVENING IN THE URBAN JUNGLE
After the last session, the video wall at the harness racing track revealed the meeting point for the start of the eagerly awaited highlight of #DCHH20: the Davidwache police station on the Reeperbahn. From there, the participants were led to one of the Reeperbahn's most legendary addresses – ' Schmidts Tivoli' at Spielbudenplatz. Specifically for the approximately 200 participants and the #DCHH20 crew, the show in the unique private theater was expanded with tourist-themed elements and current references to DestinationCamp and its attendees.
Here beats the heart of St. Pauli: Before Corona, visitors from all over Germany came to experience grand musical theater productions with imaginative staging, exquisite guest performances, and wild revues in one of the city's most beautiful theater halls. Since its opening on September 1, 1991, the shows and acts have delighted more than 600 spectators every evening.
After three months of mandated Corona closure, the Reeperbahn theater celebrated its reopening on July 2 as a new, temporary total work of art in Hamburg's Kiez district.
Paradiso is a unique show experience that will only exist exactly now, in this special time.
promised the website of the unique private theater – and specifically for the approximately 180 participants of DestinationCamp and the netzvitamine crew, the show was expanded with tourist-themed elements.
Even under Corona conditions, a party for all the senses began immediately upon entering the almost circular hall – amidst a magnificent, tropical-like oasis and with a dazzling variety of singing, comedy, acrobatics, and culinary delights.
In the end, the guests could unconditionally agree with the verdict of NDR Television:
The Tivoli has achieved something almost unthinkable: implementing restrictions and hygiene regulations in such a way that it essentially feels like a particularly exclusive theater experience for the audience.
In pairs or small groups, the DCHH participants sat among golden columns, large round mirrors, and colorful murals featuring birds of paradise, palm trees, and jungle motifs. At the tables in the foyer and on the balcony, they were served chickpea salad, forest mushroom snails, suckling pig salad, Semerole of pasture-fed beef, lentil patties, and cod.
Henning Mehrtens, host and entertainer, greeted everyone cheerfully in a colorful nylon suit:
netzvitamine Managing Director Stefan Möhler thanked hotelier and management consultant Bernd Reutemann, as well as Uwe Frers, then Managing Director of TipsbyTrips and now of Pincamp, for their initiative in founding this unique Barcamp model, on the occasion of the 10th DCHH anniversary. Project Manager Benjamin Buhl thanked this year's partners Reisereporter, St. Elmo’s, Outdooractive, Neusta DS, TraumFerienwohnungen, Parkster, HRS DS, Infomax, Klimapatenschaft, as well as Schöler Kreativ and silberstern Filmproduktion for their financial support despite the date postponement and significantly changed conditions.
And then the evening transitioned into the 'paradisiacal' part – starting with a fascinating ball juggling act by Lukas Köster. He made balls bounce around corners, delighting the audience with ever-new figures. Stand-up comedian Thorsten Bär secured laughs with all sorts of sharp remarks about German federal state stereotypes and with funny voice imitations from Inge Meysel to Udo Lindenberg. 'Contortionist' Tigris showed participants how flexible bodies could actually be, and Julia Grote, on the aerial hoop, transported imaginations for a moment into another world with her graceful and elegant, powerful and dynamic swings and body rotations – a world from which, however, most fled into dreams shortly after midnight.
