Description
The qualification of excursion refuge is an exhaustive classification. This category includes two types of facilities
- hiking refuges that were already classified as such before 2008 (the year in which the new regulation governing alpine facilities came into force);
- former alpine huts that did not comply with the new maximum structural and functional parameters introduced in 2008 (e.g. rooms with reserved bathroom, maximum volume per bed exceeding the regulatory maximum, etc.).
It is therefore currently not possible to register facilities that were not previously alpine refuges as hiking refuges.
Provincial law stipulates that the regulations for mountain huts apply to hiking refuges with regard to the services offered to guests and the obligations placed on the manager.