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WHO ARE GÎTES DE FRANCE ?
Gîtes de France is the strength of a well established network that has been working for 50 years to the service of property owners and holiday makers:
Largest guest-house network in Europe, with on 1st January 2008:
- 44,000 property owners
- 44,283 rural gîtes and 10,620 bed and breakfasts, those make 30,507 bedrooms…, 1,537 stopover and holiday gîtes, 174 children’s gîtes, 554 farm campsites, 700 chalets
- 35 million holiday days per year
A commitment with a Quality Charter and Products Charters signed by each member. An essential actor for local development and country planning as 180 million euros per year are invested for the renovation of the built heritage.
A proximity network :
95 departmental offices affiliated to the National Federation, local privileged interlocutors for the members to the national network. They only can give the approval “Gîtes de France”.
Un réseau de solidarité entre propriétaires :
Exchanges of experience and know-how.
A proved efficiency :
Transfer of customers among property owners, mutualization of the technical and technological progress, commercial force of a grouped supply.
Profile of the customers of rural gîtes at the national level:
- 35 to 45 years old
- executives and intermediate occupations
- 85% are French
- 83% are regulars
- 48% have a two-week stay
- 22% are loyal customers
- the region and the prices are their main motives
Profile of the customers of bed and breakfasts :
- 45 to 64 years old
- Top executives and intermediate professions
- 75 % are French
- 26% are “addict” to this formula
- Average length per stay: 4 nights
- the richness of the tourism offer is their main motive
Your Gîtes de France departmental office:
An association dedicated to green tourism of high quality in Anjou, in partnership with major institutions (Comité Départemental du Tourisme)
A team of professionals at your service:
Close to you, rich of its experience and its knowledge of the market, the team of the Gîtes de France Anjou office allies competence and availability to provide quality services to its members and customers.
Four major objectives :
- To develop the tourist accommodation offer and to promote the countryside in the Maine et Loire Department
- To give technical support for the creation of new accommodations and rural touristic products in partnership with the departmental tourism committee.
- To promote approved accommodations
- To lead and support the network of the owners members of the association