This question is aimed at tourists to find out their online preferences when deciding on a destination.

Would it help you choose your destination if you could find one of these contents on an accommodation website (hotels, rural hotels, apartments…)?

• Videos of the different tourist attractions near the accommodation location (country-side, activities, culture, traditions…)
• Videos of the surrounding area near the accommodation location.
• Videos of the accommodation.

Please select the options that are most important to you when selecting your destination and tell us why you feel a tourist accommodation website should provide this kind of information.

If you feel that this information is unhelpful when deciding where to spend your holiday, please let us know why.

The content of these webs are vitally important to make contact with possible clients. Hence the importance of providing transparent content that transmits confidence, reassurance and credibility to the tourist, thus achieving a connection between the visitor and the company.

One of the most important tools, perhaps the most important to achieve this contact, is videos.

• The human being remembers 50% of what he sees and listens to at the same time.

• Videos humanise the company by showing it as an equal and for being transparent, enabling it to establish a connection with the tourist where it prevails: trust, credibility and reassurance, providing an more efficient message.

• New and interesting traffic is directed to your site with videos, given that any video with keywords has a higher chance of appearing in the first few pages of search results than any text page.

• This multimedia content is very easy to disseminate and share, and thereby reaching an infinite number of users.
• A video is much more convenient for tourists, because with just one visitor-friendly video, they have all the information they need about the place to spend their holidays.

For all these reasons, Turismo Natural offers you the possibility to:

• have a professional and tailor-made video of your company. Example.
• Embed the videos which we have produced and which we will continue to produce on various tourist spots around Spain, on your own website for just 15€ a month (VAT not included).

Note: all the videos by Turismo Natural have a music licence.

By making changes in our videos, we have managed to achieve:

• Faster surfing on our site.
• Better video quality.
• Videos load faster.
• You can now find our videos with Google.

As you can see, Turismo Natural, apart from offering higher speeds, we also offer better quality. If you want to view a video which you could not watch properly in the past because it was slow to load, you can enjoy that video now faster and in better quality.

“The success of the tourism industry at the moment is based on the creation and transmission of knowledge, which, to a large extent, depends on the capacity of companies to produce such knowledge. To achieve this, the key is the capacity of tourism companies to innovate.”

“Tourism companies must innovate if they wish to guarantee their survival in the short and long term, that is, they must obtain new products, use new processes or improve aspects of old processes or products.”

For more information in Spanish, click here

Faced with the current changes and those of the foreseeable future, those sectors that belong to the tourism industry (accommodation, transport, travel agents and distributors, attractions, outdoor activities, restaurants, etc.), will have to adapt to the development and use of new technologies and they will have to make their products stand out (be it for their attributes, design, quality, image, complementary services, etc), if they do not wish to be doomed to a competition based solely on price.

One of our main worries when we set off on holidays, weekends, bank holidays…is the traffic on the road, traffic jams, road-works, accidents, etc.

Well, to avoid all these problems here is a link you might like which you can also find amongst our website friends list: Traffic Map.

You’ll find that Traffic Map is very useful; you’ll have a much smoother journey by being able to choose the best route for you.

Nevertheless, it is only a guide and it cannot guarantee that you’ll avoid traffic jams, so please drive carefully. It doesn’t matter if you arrive one or two hours late, you’re going on holiday so relax and enjoy the ride!

Spain is a great place for tourism: good weather, beach, culture, history, traditions…these are some of the many attractions that explain why millions of tourists choose to visit Spain, whether they be foreigners or Spaniards.

Nowadays, tourists are looking for new experiences and new forms of tourism. For those who want to interact with nature or seek peace and quiet, etc., then what you want is a type of tourism that can offer a range of possibilities: hill-walking, relaxing, active tourism, history, culture…in other words, Rural Tourism.

According to the Spanish National Institute of Statistics, Asturias is the main destination for Rural Tourism, given that this autonomous region experienced a 7.72% increase in Rural Tourism in February.

More information on this article here.

Just like hundreds of years ago, the Yew tree continues to be the centre of life and death of many Celtic villages.

The BELLS, the BARD and the BAGPIPES opened the V Yew Tree Council in Santibáñez de la Fuente, in the municipality of Aller (Asturias).

Nothing like this has been called for over a hundred years. On 31^st January 2010, the Yew Tree Council, comprised of 34 groups and associations linked to culture, art or the environment requested that this singular Celtic totem tree and natural treasure be protected. The reason for the petition was due to the many restoration projects that were being executed on Romanesque, pre-Romanesque or late-Romanesque churches in the area and which have caused serious damages to these trees, such as those undergone by the Abamia Yew tree in Cangas de Onís (Asturias). They argued that work can be carried out on these churches while ensuring that no damage is caused to these ancient trees.

The meeting was held under the Sanitbáñez de la Fuente Yew tree where everyone had their say democratically and the V Yew Tree Council meeting was closed with the Xuaca Amieva bagpipes, with a song dedicated to this century-old Yew tree. This tree was declared a natural monument by Spanish Royal Decree 78/95 on the 27^th of April 1995.

En este post no pretendo enrollarme mucho, sólo decirles que Turismo Natural tiene escasos tres meses de vida y ya despierta el interés de la prensa.

El Fielato, prensa del oriente de Asturias (zona muy turística de la región), dedicó casi una página entera a Turismo Natural.

En la siguiente imagen pueden leer el artículo.