JUSTIFICATION OF AGRITOURIST ACTIVITY. POSSIBLE INCOME OF THE ”ACCOMMODATION” ELEMENT OF A PROJECTED AGRITOURIST GUESTHOUSE

Abstract

Because in present, the sustainability aspect is currently applied in the vast majority of areas, it is imperative to take in consideration the tourist activities, as possibilities to support the economy of rural area. The rural area, as a whole has various tourist resources, there are many households in rural area that can be converted into guesthouses, but, in order to meet the classification requirements, and to manage these resources, designing an agritourist guesthouse is an important action, and requires some costs to. The purpose of this paper is to highlight: the reasons for which a sustainable development of the rural environment through tourism is a necessity, making some calculations about initial investment to turn a home into a model agritourist guesthouse in Romanian rural area - 6 accommodation places, the calculation of the income generated by the accommodation element of the agritourist guesthouse using two scenarios.The performances of the agritourist activity, which were analyzed through those two scenarios, were: the amount of expenditure (C_t); the amount of accommodation receipts (A_t); total receipts (I_t); the duration of the recovery of the investment.