Management of a Tourist Village Establishment in Mountainous Area through Analysis of Costs and Incomes

Abstract

The popularity of rural areas and especially the mountainous ones, as a possibility to spend the vacation has increased in most countries. Almost all mountain areas can provide great opportunities for the development of various forms of rural tourism, there being many examples according to which many mountain areas, through appropriate and effective strategies of capitalizing the resources through the forms of rural tourism, start from the pioneer stage to a real valuable alternative in socio-economic terms for the rural area. One of the concepts that are increasingly used is the "tourist village", its main issue, consisting in the return of the investment, an aspect that we will discuss in this paper. The paper presents an analysis of the way in which the occupancy degree affects the period of amortization of the initial investment. Concretely, in the case of the medium-sized tourist village, the minimum occupancy degree for the amortization of the initial investment, starts from about 25% for the investment without a loan, but subsidy in proportion of 50% and reaches at about 85% in the case of an investment with loan, for a period of 10 years, without advance or subsidy and with an interest of 7%. Initial investments were established for a holiday village in the Romanian countryside.Sustainability 2017, 9, 875 2 of 18 required by the city dwellers and tourists; travel of 30-50 km from the cities become competitive with long-distance journeys abroad; and most city dwellers prefer to spend leisure and weekend days in a quiet, green and clean environment.Rural tourism can be a source of income for the rural population. The traditional products and resources that can be capitalized through this form of tourism are: traditional architecture, traditional objects, folk costumes, folk sculpture, traditional folk instruments, folklore manifestations, various traditional gastronomic, and eco-friendly products; in other words, the specific rural way of life, with multiple benefits for all participants to this activity. In order for rural tourism to have a high value, it is necessary that the economic value of adjacent activities to take place at a high level, so for this reason a rural tourist village could help.The aim of the paper. The idea of this paper starts from the existence of numerous locations with tourism potential. Many of these locations can be found in the countryside, so the idea of rural tourism is brought to the fore. In other words, the aim is to combine local economic interests, the development of communities, with those aiming at the conservation of tourism resources. The motivation for choosing a tourist village is that it could be the center of generating profit when it "sells" rooms at a higher price than operating costs. The purpose of the paper is to highlight and study the concrete situation regarding the investments in developing a holiday village that contains 20 rooms, possibly located in Apuseni Mountains. The research objective is a tourist village built from scratch, so the purpose of the ...

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