Sustainable Development Modelling of Regional Agritourism Clusters (Case of Belarus)

Abstract

Goal – construction of models that describe the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of rural areas in the context of the development of agritourism, which would make it possible to determine the leading factors for their sustainable development. Research methodology – the research applied the procedures of goal setting, measurement, establishing criteria, forming and choosing alternatives, algorithms, methods of PLS‑PM modeling, and methods of qualitative modeling. Score/results – a systematic solution to the numerous environmental, social, and economic problems of the development of agritourism cluster is not achievable without appropriate economic and mathematical models and tools for their support, which would make it possible to accurately predict the main indicators of the sustainable development of agritourism, identify the main factors of sustainable development, determine the degree of the effectiveness of certain management decisions. Originality/value – based on the applied software products developed in this way, support systems for making complex management decisions can be formed that make it possible to identify all potential scenarios for the development of any complex systems and transitions between them, as well as provide a predictive function for evaluating key blocks. In the future, the proposed toolkit can be used to model and optimize the sustainable development of specific tourism investment projects in rural regions, as well as to select investment areas at the regional agritourism cluster level.

Dynamic Analysis of Sustainable Development of Agritourism Based on Cluster Analysis Algorithm

“…From the results of the literature collected and compiled through literature exploration, there has been a considerable amount of research on agricultural cultural heritage and sustainable tourism development in the academic field in China, but the research on agricultural cultural heritage from the perspective of sustainable tourism development is relatively rare and mostly qualitative. In this paper, we use hierarchical analysis to establish an index system for evaluating the sustainable development potential of agricultural cultural heritage tourism and evaluate the sustainable development potential of agricultural cultural heritage tourism by scoring agricultural cultural heritage by experts and using quantitative analysis [2]. In this way, more scientific and reasonable development measures can be formulated to protect and develop agricultural cultural heritage and promote the sustainable development of rural economy [3].…”

Agritourism Development: Designing an Effective Model for Sustainable Growth

“…To ensure the effectiveness of the agritourism development model, a systematic approach is crucial, as agritourism is associated with various issues at both the micro and macro levels [6]. Designing an effective model for agritourism development is essential to ensure sustainable growth in terms of economic, social, and environmental aspects [7]. Existing agritourism models have often lacked a comprehensive support system to address challenges and limitations.…”

“…Several types of research have been conducted to make noodles from non-wheat material. Other researcher [7] reported the methods to make corn noodles such as calendaring, extrusion, and calendaring-extrusion combination. In another work, [8] utilized a small capacity plastic extruder of Scientific Laboratory Single Screw Extruder type LE25-30/C from Labtech Engineering Co. Ltd. Thailand with the capacity of 3 kg/h for producing corn noodles.…”