It depends. If you make a website and then wait for guests to find you : difficult !
But, if you have a good plan, you believe in your project and you manage to share it with the world through different channels (on line and off line) it's a different story. There is still growth potential for tourism in Piemonte.
As consultants we're following several clients who are renovating (or have renovated) properties for rental and as we are renting out apartments too we're able to help them decide on target groups, kind of rental accomodation, type of extra services to provide ...
If you just think : let's buy a house we like and let's make something of it we like ... that is probably not enough. You need at least an idea of who you want to attract and how you will manage it. Because, we're not overrun yet by tourist accomodations, but you will not be the only one, so you need to stand out or at least provide something attractive to potential guests.
When buying our house in Piemonte (we live in Merana, just on the border with Liguria), we had the same questions as we wanted to start an agriturismo with holiday apartments in rooms with ceilings not heigher then 2m40, and as you allready have concluded from what is said above, we didn't have any troubles with it as it is an old building. Even rooms that weren't officially rooms but storage spaces with these heights were converted into rental apartments and ufficially rented out.
There are indeed a lot of rules, especially if you want to renovate to ufficially rent out your place, but a good geometra or architect can inform you about those. And if needed we can always help you on your way with adresses of geometra, architects and builders.
You can contact a friend of mine, she has a driver and car for hire, her name is : Martina, email: movame.piemonte@gmail.com (you can tell her Nicolas and Natascha of Agriturismo Verdita in Merana have send you to her).
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It depends. If you make a website and then wait for guests to find you : difficult !
But, if you have a good plan, you believe in your project and you manage to share it with the world through different channels (on line and off line) it's a different story. There is still growth potential for tourism in Piemonte.
As consultants we're following several clients who are renovating (or have renovated) properties for rental and as we are renting out apartments too we're able to help them decide on target groups, kind of rental accomodation, type of extra services to provide ...
If you just think : let's buy a house we like and let's make something of it we like ... that is probably not enough. You need at least an idea of who you want to attract and how you will manage it. Because, we're not overrun yet by tourist accomodations, but you will not be the only one, so you need to stand out or at least provide something attractive to potential guests.
When buying our house in Piemonte (we live in Merana, just on the border with Liguria), we had the same questions as we wanted to start an agriturismo with holiday apartments in rooms with ceilings not heigher then 2m40, and as you allready have concluded from what is said above, we didn't have any troubles with it as it is an old building. Even rooms that weren't officially rooms but storage spaces with these heights were converted into rental apartments and ufficially rented out.
There are indeed a lot of rules, especially if you want to renovate to ufficially rent out your place, but a good geometra or architect can inform you about those. And if needed we can always help you on your way with adresses of geometra, architects and builders.
You can contact a friend of mine, she has a driver and car for hire, her name is : Martina, email: movame.piemonte@gmail.com (you can tell her Nicolas and Natascha of Agriturismo Verdita in Merana have send you to her).