Factors Affecting the Income of Agritourism Operations: Evidence from an Eastern Chinese County

Jin, Xin; Wang, Liang; Zhang, Zhengzheng; Yan, Jingzhuang

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“…Conserving agricultural heritage can provide new tourism activities, such as fishing, fruit picking, and food making, helping to sustain local people's traditional way of living [42]. For example, many family farmers around the world have transformed their farms into agritourism destinations by providing fruit-picking activities [43][44][45]. This business model helps to conserve agricultural heritage and brings opportunities for littleknown agricultural destinations and resources [43].…”

Section: Lessons From Different Geographical Locationsmentioning

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Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Tang¹,

Xu²

2023

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Rural tourism plays an increasing role in maintaining sustainable rural development. In-11 tegrating culture into rural tourism is multifaceted. Local communities have often been regarded as 12 homogeneous, and different voices within them are selectively presented or re-interpreted by pow-13 ers. A better understanding of how and why cultures are integrated into rural tourism is urgently 14 needed. This paper aims to investigate (1) the aims and motives of tourism managers to integrate 15 cultural concepts into rural tourism; (2) who has participated in the cultural integration process; and 16 (3) how cultures have been integrated into rural tourism. Based on a scoping literature review, we 17 found that cultures could add more attractions, such as historical heritage, artwork, cultural land-18 scape, customs, food, and language, to the natural landscape and bring more tourists to rural areas. 19 However, integrating cultures into rural tourism is not always successful. Conflicts of interest 20 among different stakeholders are also often found. Some of the worst cases of cultural integration 21 have even destroyed the original natural landscape and local cultures. While cultural integration is 22 complicated, injustice and perverse effects do not have to be a consequence of integrating cultures 23 into rural tourism. Multi-way communication among tourism providers, managers, and consumers 24 can mitigate disruptive outcomes and unlock positive social outcomes.

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Section: Lessons From Different Geographical Locationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Tang¹,

Xu²

2023

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“…For example, many family farmers around the world transform their farm to the agritourism destination by providing fruit-picking activities [43][44][45]. This business model helps to conserve agricultural heritage and bring opportunities for little-known agricultural destinations and resources [43].…”

Section: Lessons From Different Geographical Locationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Tang¹,

Xu²

2022

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Rural tourism plays an increasing role in sustaining sustainable rural development. Integrating culture in rural tourism is multifaceted. Local communities have often been regarded as homogeneous and different voices internally is selectively presented or re-interpreted by powers. A better understanding of how and why cultures are integrated into rural tourism is urgently needed. This paper aims to investigate: (1) what are the aims and motives of tourism managers to integrate cultural concepts into rural tourism; (2) who has participated in the cultural integration process; and (3) how cultures have been integrated into rural tourism. Based on a scoping literature review, we find that cultures could add more attractions, such as historical heritage, artwork, cultural landscape, customs, food, and language, to the natural landscape and bring more tourists to rural areas. However, integrating cultures into rural tourism is not always successful. Conflicts of interests among different stakeholders are often found too. Some worst culture-integration cases even destroyed the original natural landscape and local cultures. While culture integration is complicated, injustice and preserve effects do not have to be a consequence of integrating cultures into rural tourism. Two-way communication among tourism provider, managers and demanders can mitigate disruptive outcomes and unlock positive social outcomes.

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“…According to the Agritourism and On-Farm Direct Sales Survey, a national survey, 92% of female operators and 91% of male operators reported increasing farm/ranch revenue among the most critical goals [15]. Unless they reap the economic benefits of the new or alternative Sustainability 2024, 16, 1025 2 of 20 venture, it is difficult for them to become economically viable and sustainable in the long run [16]. However, establishing or switching to an agritourism enterprise per se does not necessarily result in profits.…”

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“…Researchers have identified various factors and have examined their influences on the profitability of an agritourism operation. These factors range from an operator's sociodemographic to firmographic (firm-related) and spatial characteristics [3,16,17]. Other researchers have investigated the influence of operators' motivations on profitability [5].…”

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Factors Associated with the Profitability of Agritourism Operations in Maryland, USA

Bhandari,

Ejiogu,

Karki

et al. 2024

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Small and medium farmers across the USA face multifarious challenges for survival. Agritourism has been an alternative to diversify their income streams. Researchers have examined various factors determining the profitability of agritourism operations that range from the operators’ socio-demographic and firmographic to geographic characteristics. However, the understanding of the extent to which the number of visitors and other factors influence the profitability of agritourism operators in Maryland, USA, is limited. This paper examines various factors associated with (a) the profitability of and (b) the number of visitors to agritourism operations. Using data collected from Maryland in 2022, the multivariate results reveal that the number of visitors to the farm increases the odds of profitability. However, the relationship was mediated by the number of employees, which influenced the number of attractions and visitors. Moreover, the number of employees independently and significantly affected the profitability. Further results reveal that the length of operation, the number of employees, and operating during the fall season significantly influence the number of visitors. These findings imply that policies should consider ways to facilitate labor hiring as well as other factors to attract farm visitors and increase farm profitability.

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Factors Affecting the Income of Agritourism Operations: Evidence from an Eastern Chinese County

Cited by 8 publications

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Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Culture Integration and Rural Tourism Development: A Scoping Literature Review

Factors Associated with the Profitability of Agritourism Operations in Maryland, USA

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