A tourist residence is made up of one or more individual or collective residential buildings, bringing together furnished units and shared facilities as a coherent whole. Units are let to tourists who do not make them their home, by the day, week or month.
Prerequisites
- Capacity of at least 50 guests (except residences rated before the modernisation law).
- Full ownership: the operator owns the residence or holds a lease of at least nine years.
- Multiple ownership: at least 70% of units are leased to the operator for at least nine years; the threshold falls to 55% if the residence has operated for more than nine years.
What changed on 1 July 2019
Reference texts: decree no. 2019-300 of 10 April 2019 and the order of 10 April 2019 setting the standards and procedure for rating tourist residences.
- The grid grows from 175 to 219 criteria.
- Minimum capacity falls from 100 to 50 beds.
- Extra pillows and blankets mandatory in every category.
- Unit cleaning service mandatory in every category, free of charge at 4 and 5 stars.
- In-unit Wi-Fi mandatory from 2 stars.
- Air conditioning mandatory at 4 and 5 stars.
- Two light points, one above the washbasin, in every category.
The procedure, including the pre-assessment, is fully online on classement.atout-france.fr. We reply within 48 hours, prices on request: contact us.