Rural tourism
The term agro-tourism or rural tourism refers to a tourist area with vacation and things to do in rural - rural environment. Traditionally, common is the inclusion of leisure in agricultural operations and the contact with animals which are addressed particularly families with children. Recent deals include activities such as guided trail riding and golfing simplified, but also alternative small-scale forms of life.
Basics
Agro tourism is a tourist offer in rural areas, which includes stays with adventure character on or near a commercial farm is organized mainly by farmers and agriculture allows for additional income. The basic idea is the proximity to the host family, which allows holidaymakers personal contact and insight into everyday farm life.
In Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps and other German holiday regions such as the Black Forest Tourism is a key economic factor in the rural areas and traditionally involved in agrarian environment. Especially for the full -time farmers is a possibility of additional earnings, which can also be realized in the limited domestic frame without excessive investment. The advantage is that the typical courtyard of the Central European space was designed in addition to the family for some servants, and therefore already has the necessary to accommodate house guests spatial system. From the seller is to be noted that this line of business also calls for working accordingly. Guests will require the involvement in the operation and contact with the family of the host according to time.
Meanwhile, the division has its own tourist profile. " Rural " is increasingly used for the combination of active recreation, nature and rural culture, as well as for Wellness in rural environments. Also shore leave is no longer presented alone from the original farm holdings, but worn in tourist regions of a broad segment of the population, increasingly, career changers, and professional providers in the hospitality industry.
Marketing
On marketing names are common:
- Germany: Country holiday, farm holidays, farm holidays
- Austria: Country holiday, farm holiday, holiday on landing
- Switzerland: Country holiday, farm holidays, sleeping on straw, tourisme rural Agriturismo
- South Tyrol: Red Rooster, Farm Holidays
- Czech Republic: Venkovský cestovní smell, Venkovska turistika, Agroturistika
- France: tourisme rural, agri -tourisme
- Italy agriturismo
- Poland: Agroturystyka
- Spain: Agro Turismo, Turismo rural
- Croatia: Agroturizam
- Moldova: Agripensions
- Greece: Agrotouristiko paradosiako Katalimata / Xenones
" Farm and Country Holidays " in Germany
Organization
The Federal Consortium for Farm Holidays and Rural Tourism in Germany eV ( BAG) is a nationwide central stakeholders and contact person for the provider operations of the farm and rural tourism, especially for quality assurance, marketing and training activities as well as lobbying and political awareness in the area of rural tourism in charge. The BAG and its affiliated regional state associations since 1 January 2007, with the hitherto e by the German Tourism Association ( DTV) carried out quality evaluation and classification entrusted in the area of " Farm and rural tourism ".
Which was established for this purpose land Tourismus Marketing GmbH BAG offers a portal Germany under the name Country views for guests. Here you can search nationwide country searched by courts for the holidays. About selection criteria can be refined according to specific wishes the search.
Classification and labels
The farm and farm holidays can be divided into different categories according to subdivide the offers or the orientation of the agricultural enterprise branch. As a guide for the guests, the Federal Association for Farm Holidays and Rural Tourism in Germany (BAG ) has developed seven different label or quality award, which will be awarded on the basis of predefined criteria:
- Certified organic holiday farm
- Approved Vacation Horseback
- Approved Vacation winery
- Approved Vacation Fisherman
- Recognized holiday fruit farm
- Recognized Experimence
- Recognized rural
The term rural was also established as a term to describe tourist services in rural areas that are not coupled to an active economic end farm or seek a successor acquisition of tourism to the end of operations. The identification of the mode is done according to the quality award " Recognized shore leave " and " Approved adventure farm ".
The German Agricultural Society supports the initiatives of tourist accommodation offers in rural areas with the award of the Quality Mark "Farm Holidays " or " shore leave ". First, however, investigated an external Review Committee the quality standards of the holiday deals.
Austria: "farm holidays "
The sector agro-tourism in Austria comprises about 84,500 beds and 4.6 million overnight stays. The industry is divided - in equal parts - in the division Categories Private accommodations on farms and holiday apartments and houses on farms ( Statistics Austria), and includes about 10,000 establishments (2007: private quarters 5704, apartments and houses 4977 - The category private quarters on farms includes 10 beds per farm, but not rural businesses and providers of apartments or homes ). Thus, the sector has to be about 4 % share of the total Nächtigungsvolumen of tourism in Austria (2007: 121.4 million ). It is estimated the guest appearance in the farm holiday on a total of about 2 to 2.5 million annually, with between 15 and 20 million overnight stays, and total daily expenditure of farm guests of around € 1 billion.
The code sample copy of days ( how many days and nights in a year, the beds are occupied ) is about 55nbsp d / year ( 2007: private quarters 52.6, holiday apartments and houses 57.7 ), and well below the Austria -wide accommodation average of 100 d / year - so that the division Agro Tourism is a typical sideline to agricultural and forestry operations.
Umbrella brand of the private accommodation sector is Holidays on the farm, an association of more than 3,000 family farms represented and accompanied by appropriate quality control. The brand covers the profiles of organic, health, wine, children, horse-riding, cycling, seminar, and disability-friendly holiday.
" Red Rooster " in South Tyrol
The South Tyrolean Farmers' Association operates under the brand name Red Rooster its official portal for holidays on the farm in South Tyrol. This institution also offers a wide array of services, including for families, Allergy, hikers and people with disabilities.