Hans Embacher is Managing Director of the Austrian Farm Holidays Association since 1991. This organization represents some 3.000 members with a total of 38.000 tourist beds in rooms or apartments. The main tasks of the organization are the development and “shaping” of the farm holiday product, marketing of the product, and representation of the interest of the providers. The farmers are members of 8 provincial associations, these form the National association, the total organisational network has been started in 1971 and was completed in 1992. In marketing, the association works together with the Austrian tourism organisations on all levels; in the development, consultancy and educational task there are close links with the ministry of agriculture and the provincial chambers of agriculture. On the European level the Association is member of Eurogites, the European Federation of Farm and Village tourism.
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