agroturismo

02:28 Nov 12, 2013 

without reading every bit of the page just now, can I just say that I prefer "country house" as 2 words? http://www.hambletonhall.com/

23:26 Nov 11, 2013 

I'm very grateful for your consideration, but please don't worry about the points on my account. I would have posted the term "farmhouse hotel" if Tom hadn't already done so when I looked at the question, but since he had, I thought the thing to do was to support his answer. I enjoy researching terms like this and debating the answers. If it's been helpful, I'm very glad. I'd suggest you choose the answer you find most convincing and helpful, and just leave it at that.

22:52 Nov 11, 2013 

How can I get the points to you? Though I am grateful for Tom Thumb's suggestions, I confess to thinking that your reply was better researched and, in general, more complete. I am loath to close the question without awarding the points, but it is an option.

12:49 Nov 10, 2013 

Why not, if it's an accurate translation (as I believe this is)? Personally I wouldn't be very happy calling them "agroturismos" in English (pace The Guardian), and what else are we to call them (bearing in mind they need to be distinguished from "casas rurales")? I don't think the word "agritourist" or "agritourism" should be used at all here, because it's misleading; these places in Majorca do not offer what we normally understand by agritourism in English.

12:42 Nov 10, 2013 

for not using a UK term

12:32 Nov 10, 2013 

There are various kinds of farmhouse accommodation, but things called farmhouse hotels in the UK, according to my research, are not B&Bs, or working farms with rooms, or self-catering apartments, but hotels, often 4 and 5 star. In principle, it would be unusual for something called a "hotel" to be what we normally call a B&B. I've stayed in a lot of B&Bs in the past and I don't recall any of them being called "hotel".

10:47 Nov 10, 2013 

this seems to include (a limited number of) rooms and breakfast on working farms, all the way to splendid converted farmhouses offering a limited number of self-catering appartments or bungalows; suites or rooms incl. catering. All in a rural setting.
http://www.rusticblue.com/holiday_villas_in_spain/za37(5).ph...
http://www.homeaway.co.uk › World › Europe‎
this last one offers a bit of everything

10:27 Nov 10, 2013 

and it's commonly used. However, because most of them in the UK seem to be B&B, I decided against posting it as an answer.

08:53 Nov 10, 2013 

They don't have to be "high-end", though in Majorca they do seem to be typically very comfortable and even luxurious, as Rick says; see the Guardian articles cited, or this page, where some at least seem to have swimming pools:
http://www.agroturismoenmallorca.com/agro.php

On the other hand, in Majorca they don't seem to be places where you get your hands dirty on the farm; they're simply holiday accommodation on a farm or former farm. That's the thing: they all seem to be farmhouses, which is not true of "casas rurales", which are country houses as opposed to farmhouses.

If you search for "farmhouse hotel" in English, you tend to find the same sort of thing, so I think this term, without qualification, is the right one here.

08:32 Nov 10, 2013 

Means low-end as well as high-end doesn't it?
Here's one to consider which involves the 'working holiday' side of things (such as grape-picking) - the bothy is very low-end - no running water or electricity, but definitely "agroturismo" because we spent the week planting trees. (http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/)

00:30 Nov 10, 2013 

I think this is the term you want. These are quite definitely hotels; this is abundantly clear if you search for "agroturismos"+"Mallorca". They are typically, if not always, converted "fincas", i.e. farms. Here is one in that calls itself "Farmhouse hotel and spa" in the English website:
http://www.songener.com/es/agroturismo-mallorca/
http://www.welcomebeyond.com/property/farmhouse-hotel- -spa/...

These Observer and Guardian reports on Mallorca actually call them "agroturismos":
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/may/11/balearicisland...
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/jul/06/mallorca-tramu...

In other words, although "agroturismo" as a phenomenon can be called "agritourism", an "agroturismo" in Mallorca is a type of accommodation, and as far as I know this is never called an agritourism in English.

21:57 Nov 9, 2013 

a number of agritainment hotels around the world. http://english.visitbeijing.com.cn/lodging/agritainment/n214...

21:53 Nov 9, 2013 

I'm not sure if we are talking here about the type of hotel. Agroturismos refers here, IMHO, to general offerings, activities. Accomodation facilities could be used if we were talking only about the type of hotel.

21:52 Nov 9, 2013 

I'm not sure about your comment but I guess that the sentence refers both to the places (hotels) and the activities they offer. Here in Argentina, this is quite usual.

21:44 Nov 9, 2013 

I am indeed grateful for the help offered, yet I am less interested in the type of TOURISM on offer than finding a term to express the type of HOTEL - often quite luxurious - that the sentence I posted refers to.