Abstract:
Until 2008, pensions in our country were classified into two
categories: rural tourist hostels and city tourist hostels. In terms of
legislation, there was no such concept as agrotouristic pension or
agrotourism. Only by Order no. 636/2008 the agrotouristic pension was
born. The hereby work aims to study the impact of the new legislation with
regard to increasing the number of agrotourist hostels. The study was
conducted on a sample of 100 representative hostels located in the main
agrotourist areas of the country: Bucovina, Neamt, Maramures, Bran,
Marginimea Sibiu, Vrancea-Buzău, Danube Delta, Harghita- Covasna, the
Apuseni Mountains and Oltenia under Mountain. As we can plainly see, the
legal criteria are quite demanding and the needed documents suppose a very
stiff bureaucracy if we consider that we are talking only about a minor family
business. Out of the 100 studied hostels, only 30 have managed to meet the
legal criteria and have been assigned the official status of agro tourist
hostels.
