The rural tourism bankruptcy its ascending tendency

    The rural tourism took to years a spectacular growth in the last taking to many independent communities to bet strongly by him and abriendo great amount from lodgings to the year. But this year has undergone an important deceleration.

What has happened?

    It seems that three main factors of different nature exist that have contributed of substantial form in the important reduction of the rural tourism.

• The increase of the mortgages and the increase of the familiar indebtedness.
• Progressive increase of the phase angle between the supply and the demand.
• More competitive prices and greater comfort on the part of the Spanish hotel trade.

    We can be in a change of economic tendency carried out by an increase of the mortgages that in many homes is suffocating.

    On the other hand, we have the law of the supply and the demand. The number of constructed or put rural houses at the disposal of the interested ones tourist has increased considerably, surpassing clearly to the possible demand. If between the 2002 and 2006 travelling number of increase a 77%, the number of lodgings grew a 90% almost, and this difference in favor of the supply it has continued increasing during the 2007 according to tells the country us. But the independent Governments continue promoting this tourism and helping to create new rural houses and is that the rural tourism has become a incalculable aid to save to many towns and depressed zones. Almost 12,000 rural houses already exist, a 100% more than in 2002 in which 6,000 lodgings existed.

    The experts in the sector, reduce importance to the question, indicating that only a backward movement or precise deceleration is being lived, but that the rural tourism in Spain has much route and future. Without going more far, in France there are 80,000 rural lodgings, whereas in Spain are only 12,000, according to affirms Fran1cois Derbaix, of Toprural.

    The sector must also adapt to the new exigencies of the tourists who find more competitive prices and greater comfort in the Spanish hotels, like for example, baths in all the rooms, water jacuzzi, treatments, ample common spaces…, and to offer alternatives, activities or factories in which the field is specialistic, like the elaboration of the cheese, the wine, the cider, the harvesting of mushrooms, the horses, etc. Doubtless, the rural tourism, tells on many attractive resources that to be able to offer, only it is necessary to start up the organizativas ideas and strategies for ofrecérselos to the tourist of the best possible form.