Mapping a Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Paradigm: A Bibliometric and Citation Network Analysis

Mihalič, Tanja; Mohamadi, Sahar; Abbasi, Abbas; Dávid, Lóránt Dénes

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“…• also an important aspect worth to be mentioned is related to rural destination management organizations (DMOs). Changes and challenges related to the rural environment are numerous and difficult, lately, and the possibility of ensuring prosperity through the agritourism business, involves focusing on rural destination management (DMOs), in order to ensure "a special marketing of business", agritourism business in our case, in order to ensure local sustainable development through tourism and manage the main benefits [17,[72][73][74]. In order to sustain the success of the rural tourism activity, the role of DMOs is related to the realization of a tourist product through the partnership of farmers, authorities and why not of tourists.…”

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Agritourism—A Business Reality of the Moment for Romanian Rural Area’s Sustainability

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The agritourism activity can be a characteristic reality of the present, considering rural area’s sustainability, being at the same time a business reality for rural entrepreneurs and a “must have” for rural communities that have tourism potential. It is a form of tourism, through which the tourist can receive a qualitative product at a reasonable price, but also a field that can ensure sustainable development over time, being at the same time environmentally friendly. The purpose of this scientific paper is to identify the aspects that make agritourism “a possible business reality of the moment”, for Romanian rural area’s sustainability. We take into account the following areas: Bran-Moieciu area—considered “the oldest” in terms of agritourism experience, and Apuseni Mountains area, with a great inclination and potential for this activity. The study conducted for these two areas is focused on several aspects: the degree of involvement in agritourism activities, considering the number of years and managerial experience, the analysis of the types of activities/experiences offered by agritourism structures, the identification of the main reasons/motivations for the orientation towards agritourism and the manner in which this field is perceived. Aspects related to the marketing-finance part of the agritourism business are also taken into account: customers, distribution channels, financial sources, shortcomings observed by agritourism business owners and possible action directions so as to improve the activity/agritourism product. Agritourism may be “a possible business reality of the moment” for the studied areas and not only, but in the future, the entrepreneur/farmer must be constantly updated because of the changing situations that appear on the market, be able to make sustainable decisions for his/her own business, which in the future will ensure its viability and obviously its long-term profitability and development, and in the same time rural area’s sustainability.

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“…Sustainable and responsible tourism can be considered alternative modes of tourism [9,[24][25][26]. In addition, there are several other terms referring to alternative tourism development thinking, such as ecological tourism, appropriate tourism and soft tourism [27] or regenerative and transformative tourism [28][29][30].…”

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“…There are numerous definitions of sustainable tourism [9,41]. Probably the most commonly quoted definitions originate from the various policy documents outlined by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).…”

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“…However, after the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992, the need to implement the principles of sustainable development within wider economic and social development processes was highlighted in addition to the role of sustainability in tourism as well as the tourism industry's potential for advancing the goals of sustainable development on a local scale [63,77,78]. Since then, the idea of sustainability has been a central theme in tourism development policies, and sustainable development has emerged as a paradigm and a dominant way of thinking about development in tourism [9,79,80].…”

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“…Richard Sharpley [7], for example, has stated that "it is difficult, or even impossible, to distinguish responsible tourism from the concept of sustainable tourism" (p. 385). For some scholars, responsible tourism is an application for sustainability [8,9] with a practical operational-level difference.…”

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