Performing Gender and Rurality in Swedish Farm Tourism

Cassel, Susanna Heldt; Pettersson, Katarina

doi:10.1080/15022250.2015.1005333

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“…Such evidence may be due to the particular features of the sample examined (professional horticultural farms) that have a strong level of specialization and where diversification activities, such as direct selling and agritourism, are marginal. According to previous evidence (Sharpley et al, 2006;Benjamin and Kimhi, 2006;Cassel and Pettersson., 2015), such activities are those in which women working in agriculture are usually more involved.…”

Section: Discussion I: the Effect Of Birth Order Gender And Labour Mmentioning

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Farm succession at a crossroads: The interaction among farm characteristics, labour market conditions, and gender and birth order effects

Cavicchioli

Bertoni

Pretolani

2018

Journal of Rural Studies

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Farm succession is a relevant issue, as it is related to rural and youth migration, sustainability and the ageing of the agricultural sector. Understanding the factors behind the willingness of potential successors to take over the family business is crucial for farm continuity. We examine the factors affecting children's likelihood of carrying on the family business in a sample of 216 potential heirs of Italian horticultural farms. Using local labour market conditions (income gap and employment rate) and surrounding context variables (population density), we plug the farm labour migration/occupational choice theory into farm succession analysis. This approach allows us to treat child succession as the opposite of the choice to migrate out of the farm sector. While farm labour migration theory predicts linear negative effects of labour market/contextual variables on farm transfer, we find that the income gap, employment rates and population density exert both negative and positive effects on child succession, according to their intensity. The pro-succession effects we find suggest that, despite potential threats, the proximity to wealthy areas may represent an opportunity for farm continuity and thriving. We also examine explicitly the effect of child characteristics (gender and birth order), finding that male and first-born potential successors are more likely to take over the family farm, in accordance with results from previous firm succession studies. This finding suggests a persistence of traditional normative beliefs in the agricultural sector.

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Section: Discussion I: the Effect Of Birth Order Gender And Labour Mmentioning

confidence: 95%

Farm succession at a crossroads: The interaction among farm characteristics, labour market conditions, and gender and birth order effects

Cavicchioli

Bertoni

Pretolani

2018

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…The perceptions and attitudes of community residents towards the development of rural tourism is an important factor in the successful development, marketing, and operations of existing and future tourism projects [36]. Tourism development can lead to changes in the livelihoods of the residents, as well as their lifestyles, social networks, and living environments, which may all have an impact on their perceptions of being a rural resident and living a rural life [37][38][39].…”

Section: Perceived Impacts Of Rural Tourism and Residents' Willingnesmentioning

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Willingness of the New Generation of Farmers to Participate in Rural Tourism: The Role of Perceived Impacts and Sense of Place

Zeng-yu

Zhang

2020

Sustainability

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This study aims to assess the willingness of the new generation of farmers in China to return to their hometowns for the purpose of contributing to rural tourism. Based on the hierarchy of effects models (HOE) and the social representation theory (SRT), this study utilized an analysis model of perceived rural tourism impacts (P), sense of place (SoP), and willingness to participate (WTP) by the new generation of farmers, where sense of place was deconstructed into the two independent dimensions of place identification (PI) and place attachment (PA). A total of 263 valid questionnaire surveys were collected in Yanling County, a demonstration county for leisure agriculture and rural tourism in China. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was used to analyze the data. The results show that the perceived impacts of rural tourism on the new generation of farmers had a significant positive impact on their willingness to participate in the development of rural tourism. It was also found that sense of place played a mediating role in the perceived impacts of rural tourism and willingness to participate. Additionally, perceived impacts of rural tourism had a significant positive effect on place identity, where place identity played a mediating role between perceived impacts of rural tourism and place attachment. Place identity had a significant positive effect on place attachment, and place attachment played a mediating role between place identity and willingness to participate. The practical implications of these findings for future research and rural tourism development are also discussed.

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“…There is also a considerable focus on entrepreneurial and business processes to examine the synergies among the different components of rural activities (Hall, Roberts, & Mitchell, 2003). Skills, manpower and gender issues are of significant research interest, indicating the nature of the changes in tourism and their implications for local communities (Cassel & Pettersson, 2015). Another strand of studies demonstrates the barriers to rural tourism development, for example, by considering seasonality challenges (Kastenholz & Almeida, 2008), limited capacity-building opportunities (Long & Lane, 2000;Moscardo, 2008), and resource and assets optimization (Flanigan, Blackstock, & Hunter, 2014).…”

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Innovation gaps in Scandinavian rural tourism

Hjalager

Kwiatkowski

Larsen³

2017

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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Drawing on primary data from a consumer survey (N = 2000), this study demonstrates a clear growth potential in rural tourism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which is, however, hampered by innovation gaps. At the conceptual level, the study offers a model that identifies the following five innovation gaps in Scandinavian rural tourism: (1) the portfolio gap, (2) the policy departmentalization gap, (3) the knowledge gap, (4) the change motivation gap and (5) the resource interpretation gap. At the empirical level, the study shows that rural tourism has its basis in a dichotomy between authenticity and modernization. New and prospective customer groups, particularly from Germany, demand more diversified and higher quality rural tourism products than current groups, for example, in relation to outdoor opportunities, leisure festivals and cultural activities. With rural assets, it is possible to expand the portfolio without compromising the rural image. Rural tourism enterprises and destinations remain slow movers in terms of innovation endeavours, and the study indicates that the discrepancies between 2 potential customers' service expectations and their spending patterns can partially explain this phenomenon. The merit of the innovation gap model is that this model identifies potential rebalancing actions at both enterprise and destination levels.

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Performing Gender and Rurality in Swedish Farm Tourism

Cited by 41 publications

References 40 publications

Farm succession at a crossroads: The interaction among farm characteristics, labour market conditions, and gender and birth order effects

Farm succession at a crossroads: The interaction among farm characteristics, labour market conditions, and gender and birth order effects

Willingness of the New Generation of Farmers to Participate in Rural Tourism: The Role of Perceived Impacts and Sense of Place

Innovation gaps in Scandinavian rural tourism

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