| Good Practice Innovation Sheet |
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| Items |
Description |
| 1. WHO |
| Key people and organisations (initiator, leader, partners) |
Albets Family (Megan and Joel) |
| The masia of the Albets family, settled in Lladurs, has been rehabilitated into a 4-stars hotel-restaurant with wide and comfortable rooms that follow the rustic character of the house. Casa Albets it's an ecologic and vegan hotel that cares about the environment and their guests' comfort. |
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| Key Figures |
Surface |
Inhabitants |
Tourism arrivals |
Tourism nights |
| 200 ha |
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| 2. WHY |
| Reason for taking the good practice action |
Rural development by rebuilding a house into a hotel. It is a patrimonial treasure from the XI century that went from generation to generation for ages. Ecology has been present in every stage of the rehabilitation and the restaurant is exclusively based on vegan, ecological and local ingredients. |
| Issues and challenge |
Rural area with no offers for ecologic and vegan tourism. It is still now (2018) the only vegan restaurant and ecologic hotel in the Solsonès region, attracting many hosts from all the country. |
| 3. HOW |
| Methods /steps / tools used (to develop the good practice) |
Almost all the furniture has been manufactured by using own timber from the area. They are creating their own energy through local biomass. They are very connected to history and heritage and they provide local and ecological products from their land. |
| 4. RESULT |
| Specific/measurable results, benefits |
6 ecological rooms made with high quality materials. An exclusive vegan and ecologic restaurant with capacity for 40 people managed by an international chef specialized in vegan food. |
| Recognitions (e.g. awards) |
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| 5. REFLECTION |
| Lessons learned |
Coherency should be permanent in all steps of the project, from design to final services to costumer. |
| Challenges met |
Very targeted offer for tourism (vegan and ecological tourism) in a rural area. Rural development and renaissance by connecting heritage and gastronomy and taking back the people to isolated areas. |
| Critical success factors |
Coherency in all phases, acceptance of the restaurant specific menu, wellbeing and natural experience for costumers. |
| 6. MORE |
| web-references, documents |
https://casaalbets.cat/en/ |
Casa Albets
