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AGROTOURISM

AGROTOURISM. LECTURE 1 OVERVIEW. GRADING SYSTEM. 1 ST ASSESSMENT :15% (Eco-presentation)(30 th jan & 6 th february) 2 ND ASSESSMENT : 15% (Agro-presentation)(27 th february & 6 th march) Final : 20% (Written Exam essays)

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AGROTOURISM

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  1. AGROTOURISM LECTURE 1 OVERVIEW

  2. GRADING SYSTEM • 1ST ASSESSMENT :15% (Eco-presentation)(30th jan & 6th february) • 2ND ASSESSMENT : 15% (Agro-presentation)(27th february & 6th march) • Final : 20% (Written Exam essays) • Group/Individual Project : 20% (Destination assessment) • Excursion : 30% ( 1 Eco and 1 Agro) • March 9th and 23rd

  3. AgroTourism Development In 1978 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concluded that between 40% and 60% of farmers in the highly industrialized countries could be classified as part-time farmers because they derived more than half of their income from non-agricultural sources.

  4. AgroTourism Development At the same time the same organization published statistics showing the clear and continuous growth of the tourist industry in the same industrialized countries.

  5. AgroTourism Development Higher incomes and increased leisure time have encouraged a growth industry which has tended to diversify both in structure and geographically and which has led increasingly to the discovery of the countryside as a possible tourist resource.

  6. What Agro-Tourism Could Offer In some countries, this form of tourism, and particularly holidays on farms, are considered as most appropriate for families with several children, sometimes including those with lower incomes.

  7. What Agro-Tourism Could Offer In other countries, it is less the income aspect which is the main determining factor, but rather the search for individual and unique types of holidays providing activities in isolation and quiet (fishing, mountain climbing, hiking, horse riding, etc). People from congested and polluted cities may find more recreation in rural areas than in equally congested and polluted hotel complexes.“

  8. Agro-Tourism Statistics Of all countries it is perhaps Austriathat can claim the highest popularity for farm tourism. According to the Agricultural Census of 1970: “26 300 out of a total of 362 000 Austrian farms let approximately 230 000 beds in about 114 000 guest rooms”. Of the total of 70 700 households letting rooms to tourists, almost 30% were farm households. A 1980 survey shows that while only 2.95 of all Austrian households let rooms privately to tourists, the participation of farm households was 9.8% (showing a clear lead over non-farm hosts).

  9. Agro-Tourism Statistics Farm tourism in Finland has been ‘systematically dev- eloped’ for 15 years. Out of the 150 000 active farms of the country 2 000 offer a total of about 4 000 cottages to domestic and foreign tourists. The Aland Islands, a highly touristic region of that country, an archipelago of 6 500 islands with over 1 million visitors for 22600 inhabitants (more than 40 tourists per local), has farm tourism as the most popular form of tourism there; about one third of the 1 400 farms rent out cottages.

  10. Benefits of Agro-Tourism to Farmers Financial Local Community Tourists

  11. Agro-Tourism Future Comprehensive planning is needed in rural tourism. integrate touristic activities and their objectives with community development plans. Flexible framework, from family to community to regional levels. Small scale tourism provides many advantages. It is more at the human scale and facilitates personal interaction between visitors and locals in a way that giant size tourist developments would not permit. Establishment of ‘artificial’ villages in the countryside.

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