This document discusses agritourism and rural tourism. It defines agritourism as a combination of agricultural activities and tourism services provided on farms that supplements farm income. Rural tourism involves tourist activities and services in rural areas led by the local population using local resources. The document outlines factors involved in rural tourism like cultural, ecological, social, and physical factors. It also discusses prerequisites for agritourism options on farms, objectives and methods for encouraging agritourism activities, and maximum grants available for certain agritourism and rural tourism investments.

1. Student: Simion Florentin-Cristian
Group: 8213
Profesor coordonator:Frumuselu Mihai

2. Agritourism
one of the largest industries in the world;
one of the most important factors of global economic development;
sustainable agro-tourism;
concept defined in 1991 as a collaboration between the International Union for
Conservation of Nature, World Federation for the Protection of Nature and the
European;
Federation of National and Natural Parks;
involving all forms of tourism development;
providing management and tourism marketing that respects the integrity of the
natural, social and economic environment;
ensuring the preservation of natural and cultural resources for future

3. Factors involved
Cultural factors: traditions, language, religion, customs,
culture;
Ecological factors: flora, fauna and ecosystems;
Physical factors: natural resources, space and facilities;
Factors Social factors: viewed from two perspectives: the
hosts - include all factors that correspond to their standard of
living; the visitor - include all factors that define the life and
experience.

4. Rural Tourism
The difficulty of defining the term rural tourism (widely
accepted and used unit);
Cause - specific areas receiving tourists or tourist service
providers;
Definition of the World Tourism Organization "Tourism
Form which includes any tourist activity in rural areas
organized and led by the local population, exploiting local
tourism resources (natural, cultural, historical and human) as
well as facilities, tourist structures, including guesthouses
and farms agro "
Definition, though not explicit, is based on a number of
specific features that characterize rural tourism activities.

5. Agritourism
 Specific form of agritourism areas;
 A combination of agricultural activities with tourism services within an
agricultural households or farms, which is a complementary solution to
supplement the farm income, the positive effects of social and economic nature,
which involves contact of tourists with housework, and providing partial food
from local produce;
 Smallholder in rural areas:
- Usually as a secondary activity
- Work in the household / farm
- The main occupation and source of income
 In most cases, the hosts available to tourists:
- Surplus living space
- The disposed and arranged or built specifically for such activities
rural locations
- Owners have a small household, garden, pets
- Offer tourists natural, organic, own production or from other farms in the village

6. Prerequisites option for rural tourism
Create a new activity, change strategy and to introduce a new
farm activity, are decisions that can be implemented only
after a needs analysis;
Choosing agritourism as complementary activity on the farm
requires an analysis of three essential elements:
- Surplus resources for housing, space for accommodation,
dining and its preparation;
- Surplus resources while working at the family level;
- Surplus agricultural resources.
These three resources are fundamental prerequisites choice
agrotourism, as a business to better use them;
If these resources are available, agritourism is an ideal
solution for a better use of them in the household.

8. Encouraging agritourism activities
Specific objectives
1. Creating and maintaining employment through tourism
activities, particularly for youth and women;
2.Cresterea value added of tourism activities; 3. Creating,
improvement and diversification of tourism infrastructure
and services;
4.Cresterea number of tourists and the duration of visits.
Operational objectives
1.Creşterea and improvement of tourist to scarămică;
2. The development of information systems and tourism
promotion;
3. Creating recreational facilities for access to natural areas
of tourist interest

9. Investments in small-scale infrastructure such as
information centers, development of agro bookmarks, etc.
Construction, upgrading and equipping local information centers to
promote, present and visit the tourist;
Development of local electronic booking for the rural tourism
accommodation, connected to regional and national systems;
For tourism of the old railway track trails tourism signs, tourist
havens public, etc.;
Restoring narrow their complementary facilities, refurbishment of
equipment;
Investments for setting up and arranging thematic routes (ie "wine
road", the "pottery", "woodcraft", etc.).

11. Maximum grants
For investments in the non profit public interest, refundable
public aid intensity will be up to 100% of eligible expenditure
will not exceed 200,000 Euro / project;
For income-generating investments, public support intensity
will be up to:
- 70% of the total eligible costs should not exceed 70,000
Euro / project investment in agro-tourism projects;
- 50% of total eligible expenditure and shall not exceed
200,000 Euro / project for other types of investments in rural
tourism.

12. Bibliografie
Wikipedia
www.google.com
Scrib