AGRITOURISM AND DIDACTIC FARMS

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AGRITOURISM AND
DIDACTIC FARMS
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REMARK
This module consists of two parts:
• The first part, including 20 slides, covers themes
related to the EU policy and general issues about
agritourism and didactic farms. At the end of the
first part it will be a set of ten questions. For each
question there are four answers, just one of them
correct. If all your answers are right you pass the
test, otherwise you will repeat the sequence till the
test is completed without mistakes.
• The second part, including 30 slides, contains
information in detail about this module’s topics.
• As done for the first part, at the end of the second
part there will be ten multiple choice questions. If all
your answers will be correct, the system will allow
to print a Certificate corresponding to the 3rd Level.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction to the Training Module
• Part I – Basic Knowledge - EQF Level 2
Specific attributes of Agritourism – Development factors – The
objectives of Agritourism – Resons for practicing Agritourism –
Basic terms about Didactic Farms – Objectives of didactic farms
• Set of 10 multiple questions
• Part II – Detailed Knowledge – EQF Level 3
Types of touristic villages – Factors involved in Agritourism –
Principles of sustainable Agritourism – The components of a didactic
farm – The structure of the teaching staff in a didactic farm –
Legislation regarding Agritourism and Didactic Farms Management
in Romania
• Set of 10 multiple questions
• Certificate 3

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INTRODUCTION
Increasingly urban stress urges
the inhabitants to escape the big cities to
find, even for a few days, the beauty and
greatness of the nature, the patriarchal
peace of vibrant places away from urban
civilization.
The wealth of rural landscapes
and cultural heritage can be discovered
only if in contact with residents and their
way of life, their traditions and customs.
Agritourism is a combination of agricultural activities and tourist services, within a farm
or within farm households, which is a complementary solution to supplement the incomes from
agriculture, with positive economic and social effects, and it involves the contact of tourists with
housework and with local food products.
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All the goods and services required for the activity of touristic consummation is defined
as tourism product.
The product's formation requires both natural and cultural tourism potential analysis,
human and financial (financing sources) and the possibilities of establishing a competitive tourism
offer.
The inventory of natural and socio-economic tourism resources concerns:
•the proximity to the attractive mountain massifs;
•the favorable position to famous tourist resorts and towards a major tourist road artery;
•the value and variety of tourism resources;
•folk traditions and pastoral occupations;
•socio-economic development determines the standard of living, with beneficial effects for receiving
and hosting local and foreign tourists;
•population traits that confer the level of hospitality, ethics, morality;
•high level of emancipation of the inhabitants of villages-foreign languages speakers.
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Analysis of the capitalization
and formation possibilities of a
tourism's product includes:
•the design for general infrastructure development
(water supply, heating, sewerage, wastewater
treatment, repair and modernization of access
roads);
•increasing the comfort level of households receiving
tourists;
•technical, commercial and sanitary frameworks;
•leisure sports facilities (tourist paths, sports fields,
ski slopes, cable transport, horse riding).
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Didactic farm work is conducted with
the purpose of carrying educational processes
in order to acquire specific skills by students in
agriculture, agro-mountain, forest and
economically fields.

A didactic farm is equivalent to a
standard homestead, where students can
perform training sessions throughout the
duration of schooling, and it is desirable to
have the needed material resources to ensure
all the conditions for the vocational skills
training.

Farm development aims to continuously improve the necessary conditions for professional
training in accordance with vocational training standards.
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The goal of a didactic farm is to create
opportunities for the school and agricultural worlds to
meet. Children will get to know the farmer’s work and will
discover the origins of the food that is daily presented on
their plates. The farmer, “custodian” of the countryside
riches, will show them how quality food is produced and
will guide them through the different tastes that the
various seasons have to offer. He will also show them
when and how crops are harvested, and will tell them tales
of legacy and tradition.
A didactic farm tries to get children to understand as much as possible about life in a
farm and supports the cultural and environmental values linked to the territory surrounding the
farm. It also tries to inspire children to love nature and offers them the opportunity to have a hands-
on, educational and fun experience in country life. It’s a world which is often right outside their
doors but they rarely know much about.
From http://www.fattoriasantarita.it/didactic_farm.htm 8

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Specific attributes of
agritourism:
•it unfolds in rural areas where primordial are the
quality and the hospitality of agro tourism pension
services, the knowledge of the natural, cultural,
human factors and the authenticity of tourism
products;
•the touristic offer is original, varied, customized,
organized and run by the people who live in the
rural areas;
•it is a complementary economic activity farm, not
an alternative or a substitute of it;
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Specific attributes of
agritourism:
•provides to the low-income population the
opportunity to spend the holidays or
weekends in the middle of the beauties of
nature and country life specific events;
•it does not require large investments for
infrastructure planning and general
endowment in some of the European
countries (according to every country’s
specific legislation);
•avoidable massive flows of tourists from
sea or mountain resorts in summer season;
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Specific attributes of agritourism:
•it is an undefined tourism because of the diversified things it has to offer, without harming the
natural environment. In order for this aspect to be a part of preserving the natural environment,
consideration should be given to the coexistence of economic and touristic space, for maintaining
the activity of an area, to the conservation and improvement of human settlements functionality, to
the avoidance of valuable natural resources waste and to the conservation of natural vestiges and
monuments;
•not compatible with industrial tourism developed in touristic areas or resorts.
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• Agritourism is a specific form of rural tourism practiced by
smallholders, usually as a secondary activity, the core activity
being done in their households, being the main occupation
and source of income.
• Accommodation spaces: agrotourist farms and pensions.
• It fully maximizes the agricultural, touristic, human, technical
- economical availabilities from the rural environment.
•The touristic offer is original, diverse, customized, organized and led by people from the village.
•It offers the low-income population an opportunity to spend holidays or weekends in the middle
of the beauties of nature and to participate at specific events of the country life.
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Economically, the countryside tourism activity is presented as one of the ways of
existence, a complementary form of optimal use of resources in rural household, combined with a
complex of services inside and outside the household, directing agricultural production in order to
achieve an efficient and modern agritourism.
Countryside tourism activity can also take place as simple hosting, when a peasant
household has unused rooms, without providing an organized, coordinated and continuous services
(meals, visits and tours surroundings).
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Agritourism is considered to be
a promising option for the future because
it can achieve economic development of
villages with predominantly agricultural
and forestry specific, with a positive
impact on attracting and maintaining rural
population, boosting agricultural activity
in disadvantaged regions in terms of
natural resources and social and cultural
development.
Agritourism activity is a
complex socio-economic activity
conducted by farmers in the countryside,
in their household in order to obtain
additional incomes necessary for them
and their families.
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The activity, which can
include accommodation, food and
leisure is a whole that defines the
agritourism product.
Thus, it is required to ensure
a proper correlation between the quality
of utilities, equipment and general
appearance of accommodation and the
food and leisure.
Tourists, usually townsmen,
are more motivated by the prospect of
recreation in quiet places, less
crowded, which meet ecological
demands, thus, the rural area is a
perfect option for relaxation.
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Development factors:
•improving transport and communications.
Extending the upgraded road network, combined
with the expansion of motoring, are the main ways
of penetrating the countryside, even if often
(relatively short distances) poor technical condition
of roads blocks accessibility. Meeting those
requirements is the first necessary condition for the
individualization of a touristic flow, to sustain an
adequate return of investment and profit
accumulation. Without the minimum numeric flow of
tourists, even the most generous offers (in terms of
potential natural, cultural heritage values, comfort,
price) are doomed to failure.
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•increasing demand for "personalized" travel
offers. In recent years, the demand of original
travel offers has increased due to general trend
of globalization, to extremely rapid information
flow, to variety and possibilities.
•increased interest in health maintenance. Rural
areas are excellent placed to provide satisfaction
to the most diverse and sophisticated options
like cycling and walking in the fresh air, climbing,
hiking or quiet fishing, and satisfactions offered
by tasting beverages and traditional foods.
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•improvement of sports equipment and tourism industries. Touristic and sports equipment industries
offer tourists a more varied and perfected range of necessary utilities for practicing various forms of
recreation and to ensure their independence and personal security in relation to weather.
• the authenticity. Authenticity is a quality increasingly requested. Coming, in most cases, from an
audio-visual saturated environment, dominated by highly industrialized products, by impersonal
collective relationships, tourists increasingly appreciate authenticity and naturalness of country life.
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•silence and wellbeing. Wellbeing, silence and comfort are increasingly popular elements searched
by many tourists, which is not surprising, given the level of stress, specific to most workers. The
voluntary aspiration to leave the urban life occurs frequently. The idea of escaping into nature is
found almost unanimously among today's urban desires and the materialization of it often occurs in
rural areas.
•affirmation of individualism on the market. Systematic promotion and persistence of certain
products for winning a stable segment of consumers is a practice routinely used to impose various
products (cars, fashion, food) on the consumer markets.
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Theoretically, there is no rural settlement that
can not provide at least one trademark product likely to
attract the interest of tourists. The precondition is for that
trademark to be authentic, original, and the efforts to
impose it are intended to implement the wish of tourists to
come back afterwards.
The key lies in the perpetuation of this diversity,
but also to detect extra elements that confer local
specificity and therefore unique branded products whose
consecration can provide touristic circuit.
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The objectives of agritourism are:
•To improve the living conditions of farmers by increasing incomes in disadvantaged regions or near
protected areas and lands characterized by landscapes, natural and outstanding historical-cultural
elements;
•To create quality brands in agritourism;
•To create and consolidate new forms of tourism services;
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The objectives of agritourism are:
•To protect the environment, favoring agricultural production techniques with low environmental
impact;
•To exploit the typical products of agriculture and traditional gastronomy of the region;
•To preserve agricultural landscapes and to promote natural resources and historical and cultural
assets.
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Reasons for practicing
agritourism:
•The income from agritourism is an important way
of capitalization and modernization of farms
because they do not follow national and
international travel branches, thus the income goes
directly to the families of farmers;
•Acquiring a new professional skill different from
that as a farmer in the tourism services field, that
has to be performed professionally and with
entrepreneurial skills.
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Reasons for practicing agritourism:
•Providing jobs and incomes for the rural families in their own households for unemployed members,
because agritourism encourages working from home systems and it increases the occupancy rate of
labor from agricultural holding.
•Improving living space, equipped with modern civilization material items (toilet, hot and cold running
water in the house, sewer, telephone, fax, television), which represents a revolution in the degree of
material civilization of the rural area.
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Reasons for practicing
agritourism:
•income generating source for community members;
•improvement and development of infrastructure
and living standards, beautification of towns and
landscapes;
•preserving the natural environment.
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Objectives of didactic farms:
(from http://www.agriturismosozzastru.com/en/didactic-farm )
•To meet the needs of the child or young person by satisfying their inquisitiveness and search for
knowledge;
•To help children become acquainted with the trade of the farmer / agriculturalist / breeder;
•To create opportunities for contact between the agricultural industry and the consumer;
•To understand the route food takes from the garden to the table;
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Objectives of didactic farms:
(from http://www.agriturismosozzastru.com/en/didactic-farm )
•To promote good nutrition;
•To help children become acquainted with the value of food and the hard work which goes into
preparing an apparently simple dish;
•To emphasize the culture and traditions of the rural world;
•To rediscover and teach a new trade which has been forgotten by many.
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Didactic farms are rural firms aimed to
present rural activities and cycle of aliments, the
animal and vegetal life, the work and the social
role of the farmer, to educate for a conscious
consumption and for respect of the nature.
The farm will offer to schools the
possibility to examine closely some arguments
about safeguard of rural traditions with
workshops in the field, ecological and
environmental education courses and open air
games.*
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PART I – LEVEL 2 TEST
The following test has ten questions, each one including four answers
with only one correct, based on the information presented in part I of the
module.
Agritourism involves the contact of tourists with:
a)seaside and mountain resorts;
b)housework and local food products;
c)hotels and pensions;
d)urban landscapes.
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Question 1

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Didactic farm is conducted with the purpose of carrying educational processes in order to acquire
specific skills by:
a)students;
b)professors;
c)farmers;
d)teachers.
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Question 2

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A didactic farm is equivalent to:
a)a school;
b)a university;
c)a standard homestead;
d)a standard pension.
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Question 3

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A tourist offer should be:
a) cheap, interesting and organized by specialists in tourism;
b)original, varied, customized and organized by people who live in the rural areas;
c)adventurous, with an interesting itinerary organized by the host;
d)compatible with the tourist’s demand and it should be organized by a tourism agency.
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Question 4

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Agritourism is a specific form of rural tourism practiced by smallholders, usually as:
a)the core activity;
b)a secondary activity;
c)a hobby;
d)a seasonal activity.
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The agritourism product is defined by:
a)tours surroundings, hiking and cycling;
b)Fishing, animal breeding and cooking traditional food;
c)Spending quality time in the middle of the nature;
d)Accommodation, food and leisure.
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Question 6

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An objective of didactic farms is:
a)to teach agritourism;
b)to create holidays for children;
c)to promote animal breeding;
d)to promote good nutrition.
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Question 7

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A didactic farm will offer:
a)workshops in the field, ecological and environmental education courses and open air games;
b)the opportunity to play with the animals and to plant trees;
c)free classes about protecting the environment;
d)guidance to the children interested in agriculture.
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Question 9

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The income from agritourism goes to:
a)the national travel branches;
b)the international travel branches;
c)the families of farmers;
d)the local authorities.
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10. An objective of agritourism is to exploit:
a)Leisure activities like hiking, cycling and fishing;
b)Agricultural production techniques;
c)Typical products of agriculture and traditional gastronomy of the region;
d)Natural resources and historical and cultural assets.
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Questionnaire – Correct Answers
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SOLUTIONS
1.b
2.a
3.c
4.b
5.b
6.d
7.d
8.a
9.c
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Agritourism is defined as the movement of people in an unpolluted rural village, located in a
picturesque area, completed by staying at least 24 hours and by consumption of food and non-specific,
completed with cohabitation and integration in rural society seen in all complexity.
Settlements with a long historical
past, with buildings that have a typical
architectural style of the region, with
customs, traditions and their own way
of life , attract tourists who want to
discover these aspects live .
The tourist is more motivated by
the prospect of recreation in quiet and
less crowded places, that meet the
ecological demands.
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Spatial organization of agritourism is characterized by concentration - dispersion duality :
- concentration of meal services, accommodation and green villages or resorts;
- dispersal activities (pedestrian or equestrian promenade, fishing, river tourism) in rural areas.
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The tourist villages are picturesque rural settlements, strengthened in terms of economic,
urban and cultural, located in unpolluted environments, conservative about cultural patterns (habits,
inventory of work items, traditional clothes, food).
Numerous advanced classifications of specialists have in mind the functionality of these
villages, outlining the essential element of tourism.
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The following types of villages have been identified:
•landscape and climatic villages;
•tourist villages for winter sports and watersports;
•balneary villages;
•pastoral tourist villages;
•villages with historical, art and architecture monuments;
•tourist villages with folk traditions;
•tourist villages with artistic and artisanal creations.
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Factors involved in agritourism:
•Ecological factors: flora, fauna and the ecosystem;
•Physical factors: natural resources, space and facilities;
•Cultural factors: traditions, language, religion, customs,
culture;
•Social factors, regarded from two points of view:
-the host’s point of view – it includes all factors
corresponding their living standards;
-the visitor’s point of view - it includes all the factors that
define the visitor's standard of living and experience.
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Principles of sustainable agritourism:
•The environment - large sustainable value for agritourism; it must be preserved for future
generations;
•Tourism - positive activity that benefits the environment, local communities and visitors;
•The relationship between the environment and tourism - can be developed so that the environment
supports long-term tourism activity, but tourism development should not lead to environmental
degradation;
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Principles of sustainable agritourism:
•Development of tourism activity - to respect the site characteristics where it takes place
(environmental, social, economic, cultural);
•The purpose of tourism development - balancing the needs of tourists with those of destinations and
their hosts;
•The tourism industry, governments, environmental protection authorities and international
institutions - to respect these principles and to work for their implementation.
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Requirements regarding the transformation of agritourism in
sustainable tourism:
•protecting the culture and the character of the host communities;
•protecting landscapes and habitats;
•supporting rural economies;
•sustaining a viable tourism industry in the long term by promoting positive tourism experiences;
•developing a partnership between stakeholders in tourism, local authorities and local population;
•offsetting strong tourist development through a diversified rural economy.
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Sustainable strategies in
tourism:
•Boosting rural economies through additional
demand for agricultural products and financial
capital contribution;
•Encouragement of improvement and use of low
productive agricultural land, which allows the
preservation of areas under natural vegetation;
•Applying a specific management;
•Identification of values which may be the basis of
sustainable tourism;
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Sustainable strategies in tourism:
•Guidance and encouragement of investors;
•Securing long term investment in tourism;
•Including the idea of nature conservation and cultural heritage of the area in tourism development
strategy;
•Ecological education of tourists;
•Inventory of all natural and cultural features that can form the basis of tourism potential and the
analysis of all information obtained.
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Assessment of local tourism potential - premise and condition for
sustainable development
It involves two initial phases:
•Analysis of the existing tourism, in which supply, demand, competition and market trends are evaluated;
•The diagnosis, which based on the results of the analysis, will allow:
-identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the territory;
-determination of opportunities and risks;
-deciding on the possible development of tourism in the area.
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In agritourism three components
are essential:
•The village with its environment (natural and
built) and its related tourism resources, compose
the frame and source materials for agritourism.
•Agritouristic services ( the offers ) must
constitute an alternative to the standard offer
through quality, originality, diversity.
•Those who live in the village (farmers) are those
who organize, lead and respond for agritourism
activity.
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The guaranteed success of agritourism activity is
ensured by quality services.
The concept of quality addresses all components
of tourism activity - achieving competitive tourism
services, filling gaps in the definition of agritouristic
products, protection of tourists in terms of benefits,
achieving multiple and varied tourism offers in
content and form, personalized and dispersed in the
territory.
The quality of services targets also the
responsibility of the farmer in terms of supply, the
network is inserted, and the local environment.
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Besides the general purposes of agritourism, purposes like spending holidays in nature,
removal of traffic, pollution, etc., countryside tourism activity aims to obtain favorable economic
results for agricultural entrepreneurs.
The partnership (the association of farmers and between them the local government or
other local associations), professionalism and creativity must be the basic coordinates of agritourism.
In the context of an economic activity on ecological and sustainable principles,
agritourism can be a component of rural tourism, with direct implications for local tourism resources
exploitation, in economic and social development of the town and the rural community, in raising the
standard of living of rural residents and in protecting the natural environment.
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In EU countries, tourist accommodation in rural areas raises a
number of problems such as:
•In many European regions rural population is greatly diminished and aging, which is likely to reduce
local development and economic effects of tourist accommodation in rural areas.
•Construction and renovation programs of peasant houses for receiving the tourists, target an optimal
accommodation, a collective demand for local tourism services and the possibility of setting up
shelters that are not necessarily provided for tourist activity.
•Regrouping tourism products under a single label to apply a common strategy to promote a global
tourism product, by the central tourist organizations, can lead to a trivialization of tourism at the
expense of specific rural reception structures and standardization of villages in terms of tourism.
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Currently, in order to enter a home or other real estate in touristic circuit as a rural /
countryside tourist pension, the individual may be:
•The authorized person;
•Authorized as a family association;
•Authorized as a commercial company.
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For developing its activity, a tourism pension should have the
following utilities:
•Power supply;
•Water supply;
•Connection to sewer systems or sewage in their own system;
•Heating system (using solid or liquid fuel, or gas) to ensure the temperature in spaces for tourists
for at least 18 degrees in winter;
•Household waste disposal system.
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To become a touristic village, each community must have minimum
conditions like:
•Location in a natural landscape with picturesque value and without pollution sources;
•Proper accessibility by road, rail, river or air;
•General infrastructure - water supply, electric current, heating, sewage, ways of communication;
•Existing traditions and values of representative folk traditions - folk architecture, handicrafts and
crafts, folklor, museums, traditions;
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To become a touristic village, each community must have minimum
conditions like:
•The existence of rich touristic resources that can be exploited by carrying out varied activities for
holidays - rest, walking outdoors, mineral water, light hiking, climbing, swimming and water sports,
cultural activities and participation in cultural events held in the village, integration in traditional
economic activities.
•The existence of high comfort households ensured through simple or complex ways - running
water, plumbing, bathroom, comfort that meets existing classification rules.
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The value of a tourist village can be raised by:
•The contribution of spa resources - mineral and thermal waters, salt lakes, sea beach, therapeutic
mud and gases;
•The presence of valuable archaeological remains, monuments of architecture, art, historical;
•Adequate technical frameworks - roads, alleys, drainage;
•The existence of social, cultural, commercial, health, cultural and sports features.
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Tourists’ reasons to spend their holidays in rural areas:
•Returning to nature is the result of conservation necessity, health, physical and spiritual comfort for
all age and sex categories and socio-professional statuses.
•Temporary adhesion and knowledge belonging to specific groups of rural areas: patriarchal family,
local community, work group, folkloric group.
•Knowledge, understanding, inventory and development are motivations that can be done
successfully in a touristic environment ambiance. Travel vacations can turn into a real process of
assimilating new and various knowledge, and the acquisition of skills give tourists professional
satisfaction.
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To ensure the future
development of rural tourism it is
necessary to remedy time and space
deficiencies of negative policy
systematization and improvement of
the countryside.
Priorities are set on the
future possibilities of tourism
development, the degree of viability
of rural communities and the level of
economic and social development .
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Tourists’ reasons to spend their holidays in rural areas:
• Aesthetic motivations deriving from the need for naturalness, purity, harmony, order, the need for
picturesque landscapes.
• Curiosity on folk hospitality, culinary habits, rituals and crafts, determine large categories of
tourists to keep unique vacation memories in their mind for their next holiday choice.
•Rest, fresh and organic food consumption, occupational therapy for those who want to enjoy a
healthy holiday.
• Hunting, recreational fishing, climbing and hiking get a genuine note, leaving room for enough
imagination, initiative and individual inclinations.
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The didactic farm is equivalent to a
rural household, in which students can perform
training sessions, run throughout the duration of
schooling and it is desirable to have the
necessary material resources to ensure all
conditions for vocational competences training.
Didactic farms provide a model for
the organization of a farm, from the perspective
of sustainable development and pluriactivity in
rural areas.
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Didactic farm may have the following components:
•biological collections: phytotechnical, ampelographic, animal, vegetable, fruit growing, with purely
didactic purpose;
•vegetable production sector for the main crops in the area, but also for expanding crops (herbs,
tobacco, hops, safflower, etc.), fodder crops for livestock, vegetable crops, fruit and flower;
•car park and agricultural equipment specific to farm activity and mechanization sector consisting in
repair and maintenance workshops;
•sector for animal breeding, including poultry, bees, silkworms, fish and small animals of the region;
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Didactic farm may have the
following components:
•processing of agricultural products
sectors: dairy, meat processing, canning,
etc .;
•agritourism / agritouristic pensions sector;
•non-agricultural sectors: traditional crafts,
handicraft, woodworking, etc .;
•other experimental lots.
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Didactic farms may use intensive or organic production systems - greenhouses,
solariums, irrigated crops, industrial crops, herbs and more.
Didactic farms keep accounting
records for their own activities and extra
income using the bank account of the
school, in accordance with the principles
and form of organization of agricultural
societies.
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The didactic farm has the following structure of teaching staff:
•head of the firm - specialist engineer or an engineer subordinated to the Director or the Deputy
Director of the school;
•farm technician - subordinated the head of the firm;
•agritouristic pension administrator - subordinated to the Director or Deputy Director of the school;
•economist (accountant) – subordinated to the chief accountant or to the Director / Deputy Director;
•skilled and unskilled workers for serving the sectors of activity, according to applicable rules;
•guards.
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PART II – LEVEL 3
Farm activity is based on a
production plan developed by the head
of the farm and approved by the board of
the school.
Head of the farm along with
specialist teachers, ensure the
functionality of each section of the farm,
necessary for the vocational training of
the specialized subjects / modules .
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Students undertake the work of didactic farms under the guidance and supervision of
specialized teachers.
School, through its
specialists and farm staff, may
perform agricultural works and
services with third parties,
including technical consultancy.
Farm development
aims to continuously improve the
necessary conditions in
accordance with training
standards.
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PART II – LEVEL 3 TEST
The following test has ten questions, each one including four
answers with only one correct, based on the information presented in
part II of the module.
1.Requirements regarding the transformation of agritourism in sustainable tourism:
a)Protecting the culture and the character of the host communities;
b)Having access to a constant income;
c)Developing a partnership between people who live in the rural areas and tourism agencies;
d)Protecting the traditional food and beverages recipes.
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Assessment of local tourism potential involves two phases:
a)Evaluation and feedback;
b)Identification of opportunities and reporting;
c)Research and report;
d)Analysis of the existing tourism and the diagnosis.
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The three essential components of agritourism are:
a)The stakeholders, the landscapes and the dissemination;
b)The environment, the agritouristic services and the farmers;
c)The tourism agencies, the weather and the offers;
d)The tourists, the leisure activities and the agritouristic products.
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One of the main purpose of agritourism is:
a)to stimulate the creativity and professionalism of farmers;
b)to protect the natural environment;
c)to obtain favorable economic results for agricultural entrepreneurs;
d)to exploit the tourism resources.
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For developing its activity, a tourism pension should have the following utilities:
a)Power and water supply;
b)Internet connection;
c)Phone signal;
d)Gas.
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One of the following is a component of a didactic farm:
a)Artisanal collections;
b)Art exposition;
c)A sector for archaelogical discoveries;
d)A sector for animal breeding.
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Didactic farms may use intensive or organic production systems like:
a)Greenhouses and solariums;
b)Planetariums;
c)Machine tools;
d)Tractors.
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The didactic farms have the following positions in their teaching staff:
a)Recruiter and human resources manager;
b)Head of the firm and farm technician;
c)Project manager and project assistant;
d)University professors.
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The production plan of the farm activity is developed by:
a)The accountant that works at the farm;
b)The agritouristic pension administrator;
c)Head of the farm;
d)The farm technician.
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Head of the farm along with specialist teachers:
a)Make sure that all their students have teaching materials;
b)Make sure the production plan is applicable;
c)Guide their students in the learning process;
d)Ensure the functionality of each section of the farm.
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Questionnaire – Correct Answers
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SOLUTIONS
1.a
2.d
3.b
4.c
5.a
6.d
7.a
8.b
9.c
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LEGISLATION REGARDING AGRITOURISM
THE MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF AGRITOURISTIC PENSIONS
In Romania, while the urban pensions and hotels are rated using stars, the rural pensions
are rated using daisies.
For 1-2 daisies:
•adequate and hygienic facilities for meal preparation, equipped for cooking and food storage;
•common bathroom (a shower and a sink for 10 places);
•heating with tiled stove or other equipment accepted by PSI provisions;
•minimum size of the rooms (for rooms with 2 beds) - 11-12 sqm;
•maximum number of beds / room: 3 for pensions with one daisy and 4 for pensions with 2 daisies;
•bed with mattress, wardrobe, lamp;
•TV and radio in common spaces;
For 3-5 daisies:
•courtyard with flower arrangements;
•children's playground areas;
•own parking lot;
•living room equipped with proper furniture;
•rooms with own bathroom;
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THE MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF AGRITOURISTIC PENSIONS
For 3-5 daisies:
•gas central heating;
•maximum number of beds / rooms: 2;
•minimum size of the rooms (for 2-bedded rooms) - 13 to 20 sqm;
•bed with spring matress;
•high quality furniture and wardrobe, lamps;
•transparent curtains;
•TV and radio;
•high quality cookware and kitchen utensils;
•phone available to tourists
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LEGISLATION REGARDING
DIDACTIC FARMS
Educational institutions of agricultural, forestry and agro-mountain type, who do not own
or use agricultural land, may require the use of an area of lands in the public domain or
administrative-territorial units, in accordance with art. 169 of the Education Law no. 84/1995,
republished, as amended and supplemented, art. 8 of Law no. 268/2001 on the privatization of
companies that have public and private agricultural properties of the state and the establishment of
the State Domains Agency, as amended and supplemented, or art. 23 para. (4) of Law no. 1/2000 for
the reconstitution of ownership of agricultural land and forest land required according to Law no.
18/1991 and Law no. 169/1997, as amended and supplemented.
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GLOSSARY
1. Agricultural holding - An agricultural holding is the economic unit under a single management
engaged in agricultural production activities.
2. Agriculture - the science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising
livestock; farming.
3. Ampelography - the branch of botany that studies the cultivation of grapes.
4. Artisan - A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson.
5. Authenticity - not false or copied, genuine, real.
6. Balneary - of or relating to baths or bathing.
7. Communications - means of sending messages, orders, etc., including telephone,telegraph,
radio, and television.
8. Cultural heritage - is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or
society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the
benefit of future generations.
9. Diagnosis - The opinion derived from such an evaluation.
10. Entrepreneur - A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
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11. Environment - the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences.
12. Fodder - Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
13. Folk - The common people of a society or region considered as the representatives of a traditional
way of life and especially as the originators or carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up
a distinctive culture.
14. Globalization - growth to a global or worldwide scale.
15. Homestead - a house and the farmland it is on.
16. Hops - The dried ripe flowers of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in the
brewing industry to prevent bacterial action and add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
17. Income - the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or
investments.
18. Livestock - Domestic animals, such as cattle or horses, raised for home use or for profit,
especially on a farm.
19. Motoring - traveling in a car, especially when considered as a recreation.
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20. Nutrition -science or study that deals with food and nourishment, especially in humans.
21. Offset - An agent, element, or thing that balances, counteracts, or compensates for something
else.
22. Pastoral - Of or relating to the country or country life; rural.
23. Promotion - Encouragement of the progress, growth, or acceptance of something; furtherance.
24. Return of investment - A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or
to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments.
25. Smallholder - a person owning or renting a smallholding.
26. Smallholding - a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation.
27. Stakeholder - One who has a share or an interest, as in an enterprise.
28. Trademark - A distinctive characteristic by which a person or thing comes to be known.
29. Vestige - a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no
more.
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REFERENCES
1. TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH FROM http://lege5.ro/Gratuit/geydsmjyhe/regulamentul-de-organizare-si-
dotarea-minimala-pentru-ferma-didactica-agroturistica-montana-din-30052007
2. TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH FROM http://www.agro-craiova.ro/files/2012/09/Agroturism.pdf
3. TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH FROM http://www.cameraagricolavn.ro/biblioteca/agroturism/Agroturism.pdf
4. http://www.agriturismosozzastru.com/en/didactic-farm
5. http://www.fattoriasantarita.it/didactic_farm.htm
6. http://voyagertrips.com/the-didactic-farm/
7. http://www.pantalicaranch.com/?page_id=12&lang=en
8. http://www.agriturismolaquerciagentile.it/didactic-farm-umbria.php
9. A SHORT VIDEO WITH IMAGES FROM A ROMANIAN DIDACTIC FARM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3MnwC5yUs
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/
11. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
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