Position and weight of agrotourism in a temporary tourism A dynamic development of tourism and scientific research connected with it has caused a large terminological confusion. Generally notions recreation and tourism are deceived. If this first one means a rest whatever, then the tourism is a form of the rest. The tourism means a surmounting of space outside a residential locality in recreational aims. It embraces also agrotourism = agricultural tourism which is wrongly identified with a rural tourism. Principle characters of agrotourism are following: 1. A stay (connected with a night's lodging) in a farm, 2. A practicing of tourism during the stay in such farm, 3. A tourist advising and help (for example, a hire of cycles or horses) on a part of the farmer, 4. A use of local food products (though not always, among others, in a horse stud), 5. a possibility of work in the farm. Rural tourism is a usual stay in a country in recreational aims, and so simple night's lodgings in boarding-houses or rest centers. In Poland this form of a rest was well-known already in the end of 19th cent., elements of agrotourism appeared surely in the similar time. Agrotourism realizes nowadays many social aims. It locates itself in frames of a recreation as a form of an outdooring. Thanks to taking into account of a socioeconomic factor it realizes requirements of a new tendency in a formation of tourism, that is to say soft tourism. Here why it is worthy of a highest and many-sided support.