Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities

Masot, Ana Nieto; Gascón, J. L. Gurría

doi:10.3390/land10040366

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“…If agriculture can be the "secret key" for safeguarding "rich" rural areas (plains, hills areas) from poverty, in the case of rural mountainous areas, the development of tourist activities increases their popularity. Moreover, a spatial development policy favoring the development of traditional activities, with a balance between human activities and ecological requirements, implies directing the attention of these areas toward rural tourist activities [5][6][7], which are considered as [8]:…”

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Rural Tourism in Mountain Rural Comunities-Possible Direction/Strategies: Case Study Mountain Area from Bihor County

Popescu,

Iancu,

Popescu

et al. 2024

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Rural mountain areas and their local communities have been subject to research interest over time due to their large amount of available resources, but also their problems. The strategy for some of the rural mountain communities to simultaneously preserve and capitalize on the local resources sustainably is to combine traditional activities with those related to hospitality and recreation in the form of rural tourism activity. In this context, we have used a case study to examine development in a rural mountain community through tourism activities; the study site is the rural mountain area of Bihor County in the Apuseni Mountains, which has outstanding, but untapped, potential for development. In this paper, we address the centralization of representative resources on each component community of the chosen area, concrete information related to the current stage of the development and performance of the activity directly from those involved in the coordination of the activity (rural tourism entrepreneurs) using a specific questionnaire, and proposals for possible directions/strategies to ensure future development of this communities through rural tourism activities.

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Rural Tourism in Mountain Rural Comunities-Possible Direction/Strategies: Case Study Mountain Area from Bihor County

Popescu,

Iancu,

Popescu

et al. 2024

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“…The sustainable development of local communities has as its major objectives protecting the environment, fighting poverty, improving the quality of life, and developing and maintaining a viable and efficient local economy. The concept of sustainable development supposes [15][16][17] performance on three levels: economic-increasing the degree of the capitalization of resources; ecological-recycling, avoiding environmental degradation and reducing the removal of fertile land from the agricultural circuit; and social-increasing the number of jobs, practicing some traditional jobs and attracting the population to practice tourism.…”

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Analyzing the Development Possibilities of the Mountain Area of Banat, Caras-Severin County

Peev-Otiman,

Mateoc-Sîrb

2023

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A county such as Caras-Severin in the mountain area of Banat, with extraordinary natural tourism potential, has a real chance for tourism development only under the conditions of a strong economy and an infrastructure that facilitates and supports tourism activity. In turn, tourism, as an economic activity generating jobs and new added value, must contribute, through feedback, to the general economic development of the county. This research offers a case study on the possibilities of tourism development of these areas by exploiting the available natural and anthropic potential. The economic and social development of such a county, including from a tourism point of view, is strictly linked to the general economic development and evolution of Romania, both in the national and international context. To position the contribution of tourism to the development of Caras-Severin County as correctly as possible, we briefly present the general economic situation, including tourism, of Romania, by comparing it with the neighboring and, at the same time, competing countries from a tourism point of view—Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia,—as well as with counties in Romania similar to Caras-Severin County. In terms of its general economic development level, Caras-Severin County is among the least developed counties in the country. In this situation, the development of specific forms of tourism is justified to contribute to the economic development of the area.

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“…Sustainable development and the support of the rural environment, of the village itself, through different possibilities, is an actual topic [1,2] in current context. Many of the actual problems of rural areas could be solved through a coordinated development, so a smart development [3] is a necessity in relation to the times we live in.…”

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Smart Tourist Village—An Entrepreneurial Necessity for Maramures Rural Area

et al. 2022

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The necessity of entrepreneurship in rural area is an actual one. A smart entrepreneurial variant of contemporary village’s development could be “the smart tourist village”, to capitalize rural resources. Thus, in this research we come to a variant of contemporary village’s development, respectively “smart tourist village”, which is the basic idea of the work. To demonstrate that the notion of “smart tourist village” can be a future idea of sustainable rural entrepreneurship the steps undertaken were: the identification of the representative aspects of the villages from Maramures and of their specific resources presentation of the specific aspects; the study also made a quantitative presentation of the rural tourism infrastructure from Maramures by localities; and identifies the perception and “vision” of tourists and owners of tourist structures about Maramures tourist village as an innovative solution with benefits for tourists and locals. The information collected by using the method of qualitative case study served to sketch a possible projection such as “smart tourist village” taking into account the possible costs, return on investment, possible design and advantages.

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Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities

Abstract: In 2020, a special issue titled “Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities” was launched, in which 16 papers were published [...]

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Rural Tourism in Mountain Rural Comunities-Possible Direction/Strategies: Case Study Mountain Area from Bihor County

Rural Tourism in Mountain Rural Comunities-Possible Direction/Strategies: Case Study Mountain Area from Bihor County

Analyzing the Development Possibilities of the Mountain Area of Banat, Caras-Severin County

Smart Tourist Village—An Entrepreneurial Necessity for Maramures Rural Area

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