Rural Accommodation by TaMara Gonzalez Coret

1. Rural Houses: Rural accommodation with different number of sleeping rooms. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have service fee included in their prices. They have a communal kitchen and they can have communal bathrooms too. 2. Rural Hotels: Rural accommodation on an independent building. And that brings services to their clients (the services included are the clearance of the rooms and the food service) and includes bathrooms in each room. 3. Rural Apartments: Rural accommodation that is not independent. They share the structure of their building with other rural apartments or houses. They have different sleeping rooms and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include the services in their rates.

Inside those kinds of rural accommodation there are many subclasses with different ways to commercialize the product:

1. Rural Houses: Following the definition of before and adding all them into a category in function of the qualities of the rural houses, the different variations can be classified in: Rural House Classified by Rooms: Those are the rural houses which rent their rooms on an independent way and that can have or not a communal kitchen. Complete Rural House: Are the rural houses which are rent in their totality. This typology can be leased depending of the number of people or with a closed price.

Also, following the characteristics of the building, you can give a name following if is an isolated building (countryside building) or if is an urban building. Or maybe you can clasify them by the geographical area or the local habits where its placed (MasĂa, Casona, Casa de PagĂŠs, Cortijo, Cigarral, etc.) By that way, the name can be defined for the different autonomies, constituting an addition to the national classification.

2. Rural Hotels: Here, in addition to the quality classification as we can see in the stars of the Hotels following an specific simbology for the rural tourism, we can have distinctions not only using the quality method, for example, we can have distinctions due to the number of rooms, how old is it, the place where it is located, etc. So, if the hotel is located in a urban place, if is isolated in the middle of a countryside, if they have less than a specific number of rooms (charming ones or normal ones), if the building is new or the building has more than a specific age (historical ones or new building)or even it is made using the goods of the place where it is located.

3. Rural Apartments: in this classification, the typology will be always more reduced, using only the quality method as in the example of the rural hotels and having the opportunity to differentiate between the numbers of rooms.

All the rural accommodation can be classified for the activity they do. The Rural Tourism Subsectors are: 

Rural Tourism

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Agritourism

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Enotourism

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Ecotourism

For looking for the differences we are going to compare an urban hotel with a rural one.

In one hand, the urban zones have more

are not as reduced as in the cities. We can

population and diversity of people, not like

talk too about the small population the habit

the rural places. Normally, the cities and big

in those places and about the development

village can be classified as rural areas.

of the agriculture and animal husbandry.

In the other hand, the urban areas are distinguished by the big contamination levels (noise and air quality) due to the big industrialization process and the life styles. The contamination in the urban places is big due to the quantity of people that daily use the car, buses, trains or even work in a factory. We can think that due to the big impact

that

are

dealing

the

environment with the industrialization, we are getting such a big quantity of work places thanks to it.

The rural places are more dependent of the natural resources and organic materials. Sometimes they have little shops and familiar businesses contrasting with the big supermarkets that we can find in the city. The environment has not as much damage

The rural zones are characterized for having

as in the city as we had explained before and

the little communities united and the places

the life itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more quiet and peaceful.

ADVANTAGES

 The food can be ecological, from their own farm.  It offers different activities in the nature.  The sightseeing’s are not the same as in an urban hotel because in a rural one you can see the countryside and in a city one, the city.  They are more efficient in the environmental plan.

DISADVANTAGE

The main disadvantage of the countryside is that it has less technology and the economy is less developed and due to that, there are less work offers.

CORE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ONE AND OTHER ONE

 In the urban places, the zones have less space than in the rural areas.  The population is quite bigger in the cities than in the countryside’s.  In one hand, the economy, technology and science are more developed in the urban areas. In the other one, the agriculture and the animal husbandry are more developed in the rural areas.  The life rhythm it’s more accelerated in the city than in the countryside’s.  There is more contamination in the urban areas than in the rural ones.

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The quality has to help the method to achieve goals as:

 The optimization of the management processes for maximizes the results.  The continuous improvement, looking for an endless adaptation to a changing market.  Reducing costs, especially those ones that are a result of bad services or failures made in the production process step.  Ensure the survival of the establishment.  To foster the creativity and initiative of the people.  Make a teamwork environment and a good laboral clima, because not only the guests deserve to be treated on a polite way. The personnel will be the one who will face them so we have to achieve the goal of having or employees happy.

The methods for quality management developing on a business establish some actions that structure two fundamental lines: those ones who are targeted by the people who support other ones that are a part of the business and the actions which want to create a system for secure and evaluate the quality

 To registration and monitories the wastes of water  Check and maintenance of the installations  Installing something for reducing the consume of water

 Insulation of buildings  Installing something to reduce the consumption of energy  Buy and use of electro domestics

 Acquiring aliments that come from certificated CRV´s  Use of menage respectuous with the environment

 Minimize and reuse the wastes  Recycling in the generation of wastes  Reducing the quantity of dangerous wastes

 Control and reduce the contamination in each spill  Control and reduce the pollution and noise.  Control the visual impact in the landscapes

 Sensibilization of the users  Contribution to the local development

 Development of techniques for a good environmental management  Implantation and certification of quality systems

The urban design of the Alpujarra, inherited from Moroccan people, has maintained the structure of narrow, winding streets with cube-shaped houses stacked one on top of the other. Sometimes the streets widen out somewhere for creating a small square, housing shops, bars, the town hall or even the church.

The narrow streets, full of hidden corners and constantly changing their level and direction for sometimes pass beneath the houses under a kind of bridge structure known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;tinaoâ&#x20AC;?, with bare alfagĂas visible between the eaves. These tinaos are usually whitewashed together with the walls of the houses, combining with brightly colored flowerpots and the special light areas for creating images of great plasticity. Another characteristic of those buildings is their iconical chimneys, topped with a hat-like cover.

The mountain villages, which are always south-facing, are integrated naturally into the environment as if they were part of the landscape. The construction of the houses also reflects their surroundings, as materials obtained locally are used to build them: stone and adobe fot the walls, earthenware and manganese clay for the ceilings, and chestnut for the beams.

The traditional house is structured on two levels, with the lower level for animals and the terrao (granary) and the upper level as the dwelling-space, with a dining-room/kitchen with a large fireplace and the staircase down to the lor level. Light comes from a single window or balcony. The bedrooms are off this main room sometimes separated only by a simple curtain of traditional local cloth

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The Alpujarra gastronomy is based on the agricultural products, livestock and the abundant edible plants and condiments that are given in the area, although the exquisiteness of the dishes is in the know-how of the cook. The gastronomy is influenced by the diverse cultures that have happened in the extensive solar of the region, being in Islamic time, because of the cultural mixture, when a greater boom takes place.

From the pots of La Alpujarra stand out the Pot of San Marcos, the Pinole of Hinojos, the Pot of Parva, Potaje de Cascarones, the Empedrao, the Gypsy Pot, etc. The most typical Soups are those of Ajo Tostao and in summer period, Gazpacho and Ajo Blanco, with very cold water. The Tortilla de Patatas, from Collejas - a wild plant similar to spinach -, from Beans, Présules chickens, wild Asparagus, Ajetes - garlic carbs, Tomato Orejones, etc. Cereals offer Colas , The Tarvinas or the Migas. Salads such as Atascaburras, Remojón, and Salpicón, among others, surprise by the elaboration with dehydrated products, like the tomato and the pepper, the cod and the "aliñás” olives made of an artisan form.

The Alpujarra culture and gastronomy are not conceived without the wine ... The vineyards of La Alpujarra are among the highest in Europe, which influences the longer maturation period. The porous, slate-rich soil, together with the few precipitations, makes the roots of the strains deeper into the soil.

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Since the 1990s quality management in the Spanish tourism sector has become important, due to the large number of tourist destinations similar to ours outside our borders and the need to differentiate.

The Tourist Quality Mark "Q" is then created. To tourist establishments the "Q" certification gives them prestige, differentiation and reliability.

Companies use quality standards as tools to continuously improve their way of working. A system of work is usually established for the development of small positive changes in the personnel of the whole company, who commit their effort in a continuous way with the purpose of understanding, fulfilling and, at best, expanding the expectations of the customers.

The Tourist Quality Standard UNE 183001: 2009 is a work methodology created for the management of rural accommodation.

This standard is a differentiating element for those establishments that use it because it goes beyond the work of the establishment, adding value to all departments and areas of the establishment, improving its image and competitiveness.

The ISO 9001 standard covers the requirements that apply to any organization that wants to certify its ability to provide products that meet the requirements of the customer and the regulations that apply to it. Its goal is to increase customer satisfaction.

The EFQM model is not based on standards but rather a tool for quality management. For EFQM, quality management must be measured through the satisfaction of the needs and expectations of its clients, its staff and the other entities involved.

Created in 2010, the Certificate is a recognition that is given to the hospitality business that provides a quality service in a systematic way. The award is given to establishments that have consistently obtained good reviews from Tripadvisor travelers over the past year. The establishments that obtain the Certificate of Excellence are found all over the world and offer a constant superior service

The first disadvantage that disabled people have to face in the rural media is the distance between two points in the residential zone, but not only that, the place where are ubicated the services they can use, etc. Everyone needs a way for move theirselves from a place to another one.

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The rural environment is not homogeneous. For that reason, we refer to the availability of services and opportunities (social and economic ones) in the beach towns or towns located inside the country unlike the rural ones.

The low density limits the come up of the resources. To that fact we have to add the lack of population that many rural colors have. Due to that, its more difficult for the initiatives to arrive at the rural places. There are many negative circumstances that feedback themselves. There are less resources and less skills for acquiring them. The isolation that happens in a lot of places take the people to dont care about the disabled people in rural zones. Sometimes, that person is the one who is far away from the resources The misatention, sometimes improve the risk of being excluded. The people with disabilities that live in some rural places make a group that is really vulnerable to the social exclusion

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The entities of the disabled sector have to develop big efforts to supply the lack of public services suitable for their special necessities

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The groups of disabled people are involved in the general problems in the rural places where they live.

SOLUTION  To ubicate the population with disabilities that lives on a rural place taking the province as a reference.  To analyze how the personal circumstances of the people with disabilities can affect them in comparison with the ones who lives in urban places  To contribute to visualize the social reality of the disabled people situation thanks to some statistics that the EDDS will give us about that topic.  Recollect the reflections and improvement proposals about the situation of some members with experience of living in a rural zone.

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There are a lot of activities that will be performed in rural areas, because of the situation, the facilities and others. These are things that normally we can’t do in the urban areas:

 To milk cows: in this case we will need obviously cows. And someone (an employee) how helps the client to achieve this, and learn them about how to do it.

 To water plants and vegetables: we need plants and vegetables, and an employee how knows about how to do it, and teach the clients.  To cook with products of the area and the products that we have collect: we need a kitchen and products of the rural area, and tools to collect this products with the help and instructions of an employee.  Sow vegetables: We need especial tools for this task, and an employee who teach the client to do it well.

ď&#x192;&#x2DC; Horse riding: we need horses and employee (specialist) who wide the route.

For all these activities we will need qualified personnel specialized in each activity. We will also need a place enabled for each specific activity, for example to milk cows we need a stable with feeders and everything necessary for the comfort of the animals. To plant or harvest vegetables we will need an orchard and specific instruments such as shovels and other utensils.

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