Is rural tourism a lever for economic and social development?

Greffe, Xavier

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“…This concept of rural tourism's potential as a development tool is common, but so too is discussion about constraints affecting rural and peripheral area tourism development (see Briedenhann and Wickens, 2004;Bryden and Bollman, 2000;Buhalis, 2000;Gannon, 1994;Greffe, 1994;Nash and Martin, 2003;Prideaux, 2002;Powell, 1995). Similarly, lack of experience and training amongst providers is a common constraint identified (Beeton, 2002;Briedenhann and Wickens, 2004;Greffe, 1994;Ryan, 1997). This potential constraint has been noted in New Zealand, to be affecting the reputation of the country's high end accommodation sector (Anon, The Press, 24 May 2007) with comments such as "ma and pa bed and breakfasts masquerading as luxury lodges and boutique hotels are threatening the reputation of New Zealand's high-end accommodation sector" (p. 6).…”

Section: Intensity Of Use Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Bensemann

Hall

2010

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

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i AcknowledgementsThanks to my Senior Supervisor, Professor C. Michael Hall, whose perceptive, intelligent and above all, patient questions, and his determination to make sure that I didn't lose track of what was important, made this thesis much better than it otherwise would have been. Thanks also for your good humour and willingness to remain involved through times of slow progress. Your continued commitment is much appreciated. To Dr Lucie Ozanne, thank you for your valuable time and your constructive comments.

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Section: Intensity Of Use Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Bensemann

Hall

2010

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

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“…All organizers of rural tourism are repositories of these values, and they pass these values on to tourists (Greffe 1994).…”

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Values and professional and ethical norms in rural tourism in Poland

Sikora¹,

Kaczocha²,

Wartecka-Ważyńska³

2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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With development of the market economy, the views concerning the importance of ethical norms in business activity are developing. Ethical orientation in economics, has been popularized for several decades by e.g. French centre "Economie et Humanisme" 1 , established by a renowned Dominican, L.J. Lebret. Tourism, including rural tourism, represents an economic activity which has its specifi c ethical dimension. Th e goals of this paper are to characterize the basic values that are voluntarily accepted and used in tourism in rural areas in Poland and to identify the ethical norms that guarantee the realization of these values. Th e authors adopted the basic values-goals that should be recommended in rural tourism. Th ey also formulated specifi c professional and ethical norms that support realization of the values, which include: humanity and standards for realizing the principle of humanity; the cultural and material conditions of living in rural areas; economic activity, including tourist activity that improves rural living conditions; innovative attitudes towards modernization and improving the quality of rural tourist services; and values that support the development of sustainable tourism in rural areas. Th e theoretical investigations concerning axiological problems were supplemented with the results obtained from a national-level empirical survey that was conducted in rural areas in Poland.

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“…Many researches have been pointed that the participation of rural tourism has been crucial effect to the rural tourism achievement (Maestro, vd., 2007;Bjork, 2000;Fleischer & Pizam, 1997;Frochot, 2005;Getz & Carlsen, 2000;Oppermann, 1996;Reichel, Lowengart, & Milman, 2000;Sharpley, 1997;2002;Snaith & Haley, 1999;Dimitrovski, 2012;Ghaderi &Henderson, 2012;Lane, 1994;Lo et al, 2012;Edgell & Harbaugh, 1993;Page & Getz, 1997;Mafunzwaini, 2005;Sharpley & Roberts, 2004;Gannon, 1994;Greffe, 1994;Luloff et al, 1994;Butler, 1992;Luloff et al, 1994;Jenkins & Kearsley, 1997;Hall&Jenkims, 1998;Hanafiah et al, 2013;Abas & Hanafiah, 2014;Kunasekaran & Gill, 2012;Jafari, 1986;Andreck & McGehee, 2004;Liu, 1986;Ap, 1990;Allen et al, 1994;Sanchez et al, 2015;Chandralal, 2010).…”

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Perceptions of Residents Towards The Impacts of Rural Tourism in Sinop Province

Bayram¹,

Karaçar²,

Bayram³

2018

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The importance of local community in rural areas has been gained with much concern by government, researchers. Because of increasing rural tourism in global level, people also has create new job areas, increased their income and living standard. Local people's thoughts to tourism is so important for local community and welcome tourists will be happy if tourism is done correctly. Local community's attitudes to this tourism type has emerged to be investigated and the aim of this study is defined as a mesure of their attitude towards the local community to rural tourism. As a research method, Survey method, being One of the quantitative research method was applied to local community in Sinop province. The survey was conducted between January-April of 2017 and 297 questionnaires were included in the study. Acorrding to results; Local people thought that tourism had both negative and positive effect from the social, economical, environmental perceptives.

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Is rural tourism a lever for economic and social development?

Cited by 101 publications

References 4 publications

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

Values and professional and ethical norms in rural tourism in Poland

Perceptions of Residents Towards The Impacts of Rural Tourism in Sinop Province

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