Agritourism from the perspective of providers and visitors: a typology-based study

Improving the Potential of Agricultural Areas for Development of Agrotourism: A Case Study of Ban Mor Village, Sam Sung District, Khon Kaen province

“…Arroyo et al (2013) defines agrotourism as including agricultural settings, entertainment, farming and education. It is consistent with Flanigan et al (2014) who proposed that the key characteristics of agrotourism include a working farm, contact with agricultural activities which are organized by farmers and authenticity of tourists' agricultural experiences. Therefore, agrotourism is more than a tourism product, but it is also a journey for new sensations, and positive behavior in relation to the environment, the agricultural community and their culture (Lopez & Garcia, 2006).…”

Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

“…Rural tourism was traditionally developed using existing properties (e.g. farm houses and land property) and offering them to tourists (Flanigan, Blackstock, & Hunter, 2014). It could be defined as being the form of tourism taking place in rural, non-urban areas and building on the rural world's special features (Lane & Kastenholz, 2015).…”

Investigating adolescents’ perceptions regarding rural tourism, an alternative form of touristic reinforcement for the greek countryside

“…However, there is a significant percentage of adolescents who are not familiar with rural tourism as an alternative model of tourism. This alternative model is equally attractive and useful both to themselves, because it satisfies the demand for peaceful and economical holidays close to nature and the local community, and to the rural regions, since it functions as a lever for retaining population, helping to avoid the financial decline of the countryside and exploiting to the maximum the natural, cultural and historic resources of the area [34]. At the same time, all local bodies (rural cooperatives and local authorities) are encouraged to activate and coordinate their mechanisms in a constant search for the promotion of development in the region [35] throughout the whole year by constructing little guest houses and paths through the woods, which promote local products, while a parallel utilization of the landscape takes place [36,37].…”