Rural Offer in Istria
There are some 300 rural homesteads currently on offer in Istra with about 3,100 beds, which is about two percent of the total amount of accommodation capacity in this Croatian region. And while this is still a small number, we should point out that it is a segment now in great demand, and a massive effort is being made to preserve and improve the quality of this entire segment of the offer.
Across all of Istra there are several types of rural facilities – classic agro-tourism, rural vacation homes, a Bed & Breakfast offer, rural family hotels, vacation areas with accommodation on wine roads and the like. These categories of facilities will now be standardised with the aim of emphasising their distinct nature and in order to ease tourist comparison and selection.
The standardisation of the facilities is being implemented through the system of additional scoring, given that each of them must have general and compulsory standards, points are added for some extra standards such as attractive location, traditionally arranged interiors and grounds and traditional occupations.
The Ruralis Consortium for rural tourism in Istra has been founded with this in mind, and its top management are setting strict rules in order to standardise and adequately profile these facilities.
Instead of the classic designations on the type and kind of facility is offered, the tourist offer of rural homesteads in Istra will from now on be displayed in a different way – as a symbol of individual types of facilities a sign has been selected that is traditionally linked to Istra, and that is the asparagus. And so one asparagus will denote an agrotourism facility, three asparagus will be a sign of a rural vacation home and five will denote a rural Bed & Breakfast offer.
Ruralis web site: www.ruralis.hr
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