GARA membership fee and services The Georgian Agritourism Regional Association is a membership based organization with flat annual fee of 120 GEL for all members be that physical or legal person.
GARA members will benefit from: promoting and popularizing individual member facilities through its website; having access to up-to-date, industry-specific resources and information, as well as opportunities for training and networking. GARA will represent the interests of agritourism sector in front of the government of Georgia and international community, advocate and protect rights of individual members involved in agritourism.
GARA will serve as a hub of relevant information pertaining to the establishment of agritourism business, be those state regulations, tax and legal requirements or the studies/research materials/statistics that will be freely available for the GARA members from the Association website and quarterly bulletins. Furthermore, GARA will facilitate the creation of the quality standard for agritourism and system of certification to ensure the quality assurance for the international and local travelers and help increase the revenue for the agritourism sites.
In addition to basic membership package, GARA will offer a set of fee-based services that they may need to succeed in creating viable agritourism businesses or improving the existing ones:
Assistance/Consulting service in reorganizing the farm house into agritourism enterprise;
SWOT analysis and business development strategy;
Assistance/consultancy in submitting applications to state or donor programs;
Profile development and marketing assistance by consultation in the digital marketing/social media marketing;