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Holiday village
Definition
A holiday village is considered as being any globally-run set of accommodation of a commercial nature or not, intended for holidays and recreational stays on an all-inclusive price basis including the supply of meals or individual facilities for preparing them and use of collective facilities for recreational sports and cultural activities. Holiday villages comprise:
individual or collective accommodation and premises allocated for management and services;
common facilities for sports activities and collective entertainment.
For meals, one of the following possibilities: restaurant or a private kitchen in each accommodation unit, with or without distribution of prepared meals.
They are classified in the "confort" or "grand confort" categories. Each holiday village has dual accreditation: holiday village approval by the Secretary of State for Tourism and social tourism approval issued by the Ministry for Social Affairs. The final classification decision is made by a ruling of the Préfet further to an opinion from the Commission Départementale de l'Action Touristique.
Note
A holiday village may be composed of a variety of accommodation types: apartments, gîtes, rooms, pitches (camping type).
