RURAL TOURIST VILLAGE-A PROJECTION BETWEEN TRADITION AND PROFITABILITY

Abstract

Among the many possibilities to capitalize on the advantages of the rural environment, we can make the statement that the tourist village is one of the most sustainable and why not adequate at the moment. Thus, the proposed projection aims to highlight the costs of designing a tourist village and the profitability of the  investment, taking into account the accommodation service used by the structures from the designed tourist village. The purpose of our projections is to emphasize the profitability and why not the sustainability of such a projection, by the fact that rural tourism sells not only accommodation but also agricultural, artisanal and handicraft products from rural areas, and the revenues collected ensuring the well-being of both of the tour operators themselves as well as of the inhabitants of the rural environment. The profitability of our projection, we considered that it can be exemplified by calculations for two scenarios  regarding first the possible income to be obtained through various degrees of occupation, and second  the duration of the investment recovery:

- In the case of the first scenario, the one with 53% occupancy rate, the 20 accommodation places bring revenues of 76000 euro/year, the calculations showing that the investment recovers in almost three years.

- In the case of the second scenario, a bit more negative, assuming an occupancy rate of 30%, the projected village brings income/year of 43,600 euros, the investment recovering in five and a half years.