The examination of the residents’ activities and dedication to the local community - an agritourism access to the subject

Abstract

The paper deals with conceptual guidelines, basic aspects and spatial frameworks of the development of agritourism. The holistic approach, in this regard, includes the integrated and the comprehensive aspects of tourist stays in the countryside. The authors define the impact of agritourism on rural surroundings and analyze the influence of spending leisure time outside urban areas and consuming agritourism activities. Understanding the many components of agritourism is essential for future planning, management, business decisions and strategies. For success in agritourism, knowledge is necessary in many economic fields, including organization, management and marketing, among others. In addition, this article emphasizes products and services in agritourism and provides insight into the facilities and opportunities that are offered to tourists in rural areas. The research findings represent a useful tool for obtaining information about many elements of agritourism development and can serve as a relevant instrument in travel industry research or in academic investigation.

Tourism as an Approach to Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Socialist Countries: A Comparative Study of Serbia and Slovenia

“…According to some researchers [27][28][29], rural areas passed through a deep and painful process of reorientation and adjustment. Followed by the subsequent transitory drop of almost all macroeconomic indicators (gross domestic product-GDP, employment, standard of living, etc.…”

“…Reducing traditional subsidies for agriculture makes rural tourism more and more important as a key form of diversification, which supports economically viable local communities. In Serbia, as well as in Slovenia, sustainable rural tourism is an important factor in multifunctional rural development [28,29,[40][41][42]. Even more, Knickel and Renting [40] underlined the fact that "rural development consists of a wide variety of new activities, such as the production of high quality and region-specific products, nature conservation and landscape management, agritourism, and the development of short supply chains.…”

“…Statistical data in rural tourism are based on estimations both for capacities and turnover [48]. Since rural areas in Serbia account for 85% of the territory, significant number of overnight stays realized in rural areas, such as mountain and spa areas [29], as well as in other tourism or non-tourism places may be recorded as the overnight stays in this tourism segment. Despite the relatively low averages of variables among supporting factors that are observed in Table 4, the most competitive indicator is hospitality.…”

Changes in Traditional Activities of Industrial Area toward Sustainable Tourism Development

“…Studies on the residents' attitudes regarding directions of development of the local community are treated as interdisciplinary studies in the field of environmental sociology (natural and social), and this field of sociology was especially developed over the last three decades [27][28][29][30][31][32]. Research on the residents' attitudes toward tourism development, including their willingness to participate in entrepreneurial activities in the tourism sector, was previously conducted and presented in numerous studies [33][34][35][36][37]. The attitudes of the local community are typically strongly associated with deeply rooted values, as well as with personalities which are not so prone to changes [38][39][40][41][42].…”

Economy and Ecology: Encounters and Interweaving

“…There has been a lot of attention in both practice (the business, policy-making, various aspects of the social sphere) and science in the last 20 years. Numerous studies address the environmental impact of tourism on ecology; while ecology is one of the most important factors in choosing a tourist destination [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Ecology in tourism today is not just an issue that must be addressed or protected (as in the productive sectors in the events of pollution or irrational use of resources).…”