From deckhand in Lemmer to hotel boss: Mark Jongedijk sometimes houses up to five thousand guests

Whether they are technicians, dredgers, festivalgoers, or refugees, Mark Jongedijk provides them all with a bed. In the early 1990s, the owner of Slaapschepen started as a mate on the traditional sailing fleet. Now, he is launching a new modular hotel system for the water in Leeuwarden.