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According to the C.E. country-tourism is a very wide concept that
includes any kind of touristical activity managed and carried out
in a rural ambient, and includes tourism in agricultural firms or
"agriturismo" (com (88) 501 of july 29th 1988). According
to this interpretation, the two terms country-tourism and agri-tourism
may be considered as synonymous, since they indicate forms of vacation
carried out in rural place, for which is nearly impossible to give
an univocal definition or a differentiation after the equipments
used or the activities carried out.
In spite of that here in Italy, the two terms (and the two productive
fields) were distinguished.
Agritourism is considered an actual rural business concerned with
the visual activities of a farm (breeding and cultivation) after
the l. december5th 1985 n. 730, december 30th 1991 n. 413 (with
which a special fiscal system as been recognized) and several regional
laws.
The law n. 730 defines agritouristic any form of "reception
and hospitality practiced by agricultural entrepreneurs through
the utilization of their own farm, in connection or complementary
relation with activities of cultivation and breeding, that must
remain the main business of the firm".
The complementary character shows that agritourism cannot exist
beyond the farm, neither to prevail over its visual activities.
However, prevalence of agriculture just concerns the relation with
agritourism, prescinding from any other activity.
According to the circular of the department of agriculture, n. 10
june 27th 1986, this relation concerns with the income of several
businesses, the company's organization and the working capacity
destined to the activities (extended to the whole family).
Moreover regions are alloted to fix standards and limitations as
to manage agritourism activity (law n. 730) and to fix the relation
between connexion and complementariety, considering the different
features of the regions (or part of these), of the firms and of
the concerned properties.
The agritourism license is reserved to agricultural autonomous workers,
who in any form and title carrying out an activity of entrepreneur;
this is extended to all agricultural entrepreneurs, whether this
is their chief or secondary activity, to all the family, on condition
that it has part in the business, to any kind of associated agricultural
enterprise.
The law (art. 2135 civil code) considers agricultural entrepreneurs
all the subjects, singles or associated, and their family (230/bis
civil code).
An agricultural enterprise can practice agritourism only utilizing
the existing property and the rural building, wholly or partially,
no longer used for the usual rural business or for the housing uses
of the entrepreneur of his family.
It's excluded the use of buildings not pertinent to the agricultural
firm or situated in a place different from that where agritourism
is carried out (even whether belonging to the entrepreneur).
Any kind of tourism activity practiced in the country, even if inside
an agricultural firm with criterious dissimilar to the law n. 730,
is considered country-tourism, so regulated by the law n. 217, may
17th 1983. In this case, the activity involves:
- the unruralization of the buildings and properties concerned;
- the necessity of making a request in order to changing the destination
of the territory of the competent municipality;
- the entrepreneur run the risk to loose the title of agricultural
entrepreneur of farmer, for the existence of high extra-agricultural
income (in this case it is compulsory to be enrolled in the register
of commercial activities at the chamber of commerce of one's own
province and to provide oneself of the prescribed licence).
At present, just few regions (Emilia Romagna, Molise, Alto Adige,
Umbria) have specifically regulated even if through different solutions,
the country-tourism, giving him an alternative and complementary
aspect, quite distinct from the agritourism.
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