DEFINITION OF AGRITOURISM

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DEFINITION OF AGRITOURISM

• Bohuslava Boucková

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Structure

• Types of definitions
• alternative/sustainable tourism
• rural tourism
• agritourism
• Basic frame of agritourism
• Proposal for the AgriTourNet

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Types of definitions

• Basic difference agritourism and rural tourism
• Mixed definitions
• Czech definition

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Most of the definitions are based on

• difference from mass tourism
• stress on individual/small group approach
• sustainability
• environment and nature protection
• traditions
• enjoyment, but also education

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Alternative Tourism
The alternative forms of tourism combine tourist
products or separate tourist services different
from the mass tourism by means of supply,
organization and the human resource involved.
These are rural, ecotourism, adventure (biking,
horseback riding, snowshoeing, ski
mountaineering, rafting, diving, caving,
climbing), thematic tourism connected with the
cultural and historical heritage, the esoteric,
religion, wine, traditional cuisine, ethnography
and traditional music and handicrafts.
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Sustainable tourism

• Sustainable tourism is a new category and is a
  continuation of the conception for sustainable
  development which was launched at the conference
  in Rio in 1993. It is a result of the concerns to
  the protection of endangered regions on the
  planet as a whole and in particular the tropical
  woods. However, it treats urban and rural
  regions, cultural and historical heritage as well
  and consequently has broader coverage than
  ecotourism.
• Sustainable tourisms objective is minimizing
  tourism influence on the local environment
  through promoting its conception to tourists
  before and during their holiday as well as
  provoking nature conservation practices ever
  since the conception stage in the outgoing sector.

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Types of definitions

• Basic difference between rural tourism and
  agritourism
• Agritourism Agricultural Tourism
• It refers to the act of visiting a working farm
  or any agricultural, horticultural or
  agribusiness operation for the purpose of
  enjoyment, education, or active involvement in
  the activities of the farm or operation.

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Agritourism in the narrow sense

• Agritourism is a style of vacation in which
  hospitality is offered on farms. This may include
  the opportunity to assist with farming tasks
  during the visit. .. Agritourism has often been
  proposed as a means to prop up a local
  agricultural economy when local producers are no
  longer economically competitive otherwise.

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Agritourism wide range of activities

• Dude and guest ranches
• Pumpkin picking
• Spring planting
• Camping trips
• Hunting Fishing
• Participate in farm activities
• Dairies
• Wildlife watching/photography
• Wineries

• Bed Breakfast
• Cabin rental
• Campfires/picnics
• Wagon rides
• Meeting facilities
• Catered events
• Horseback riding
• Cattle drives
• Skeet shooting
• Nuts/Produce/Meat/
• Baked goods for sale

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Agritourism as a part of sustainable tourism

• Agritourism is the form of tourism which
  capitalizes on rural culture as a tourist
  attraction. It is similar to ecotourism except
  that its primary appeal is not the natural
  landscape but a cultural landscape.If the
  attractions on offer to tourists contribute to
  improving the income of the regional population,
  agritourism can promote regional development. To
  ensure that it also helps to conserve diversity,
  the rural population itself must have recognized
  agrobiodiversity as valuable and worthy of
  protection.
• http//www.gtz.de/agrobiodiv/download/agrotourismu
  s_engl.pdf 

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Rural Tourism

• is a recreational experience involving visits to
  rural settings or rural environments for the
  purpose of participating in or experiencing
  activities, events or attractions not readily
  available in urbanized areas. These are not
  necessarily agricultural in nature.
• UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego County

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Definition of Rural Tourism

• Any form of tourism that showcases the rural
  life, art, culture and heritage at rural
  locations, thereby benefiting the local community
  economically and socially as well as enabling
  interaction between the tourists and the locals
  for a more enriching tourism experience can be
  termed as rural tourism. Rural tourism is
  essentially an activity which takes place in the
  countryside. It is multi-faceted and may entail
  farm/agricultural tourism, cultural tourism,
  nature tourism, adventure tourism, and
  eco-tourism. As against conventional tourism,
  rural tourism has certain typical
  characteristics, like it is experience oriented,
  the locations are sparsely populated, it is
  predominantly in natural environment, it meshes
  with seasonality and local events and is based on
  preservation of culture, heritage and traditions.
• Oklahoma Agritourism

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EU definitions

• Rural tourism
• regards the activities of a person travelling and
  staying in rural areas (without mass tourism)
  other than those of their usual environment for
  less than one consecutive year for leisure,
  business and other purposes (excluding the
  exercise of an activity remunerated from within
  the placed visited).
• Eurostat. 1998. Community Methodology on Tourism
  Statistics. European Commission. Luxembourg.

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Language translations

• Bulgarian?????? ???????
• Czechvenkovská turistika
• Danishlandturisme
• Dutch plattelandstoerisme
• Englishrural tourism
• Estonianmaaturism
• Finnishmaaseutumatkailu
• Frenchtourisme rural
• GermanLandtourismus
• Greeka???t???? t????sµ??
• Hungarianvidéki turizmus
• Icelandicferðamennska í dreifbýli

• Italianturismo rurale
• Latvianlauku turisms
• Lithuaniankaimo turizmas
• Norwegianbygdeturisme
• Polishturystyka wiejska
• Portugueseturismo rural
• RomanianTurism rural
• Slovakvidiecky turizmus
• Sloveniankmecki turizem
•  Spanishturismo rural
• Swedishlandsbygdsturism
•  

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Therefore

• in most definitions, a difference is made
• between
• rural tourism as a wider concept
• and
• agritourism as one of the forms of rural tourism

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Czech definition

• In the Czech Republic, the theory and practice of
  rural tourism/agritourism is taught at several
  universities
• Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Doc.
  M.Pourová and M.Brabencová
• Mendel Agricultute and Forestry University Brno
  Ing.Vl. Mikule
• South Bohemia University Ceské Budejovice
  Ing.M. Stríbrná

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Czech definition of rural tourism and agritourism

• Rural tourism is the form of alternative to mass
  tourism, which takes place in rural areas
• Agritourism is a specific form of rural tourism,
  with the following features
• close relation to nature and countryside of rural
  areas
• direct relationship to agricultural activities or
  buildings with agricultural function
• provided by entrepreneurs whose dominant activity
  farming, registered as farmers according to the
  law
• (Act No.105/1990 Coll. On private
  entrepreneurship) as a side-activity for
  acquiring the additional income
• Eco-agritourism is a specific form of agritourism
  and rural tourism at organic agriculture farms

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To conclude, the most usual division is
Mass tourism
Alternative tourism/ Sustainable tourism
Thematic tourism Cultural tourism Religious
tourism.
Ecotourism
Rural tourism
Adventure tourism
Agritourism
Other rural tourism
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Agritourism comprises
Agritourism
Eco-agritourism
Wine-tourism
Common agritourism
Healing agritourism
Fishing
Hunting
Hippotourism
..
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In other definitions, howeverrural tourism and
agritourism is a synonym

• Rural tourism involves tourists witnessing or
  participating in activities that form the core of
  country life such as farming (synonyms farm
  tourism, agrotourism /agritourism). Loosely
  defined it can encompass any activity that takes
  place in a non-urban, populated area. With farm
  incomes dwindling in many "developed", but also
  "developing" countries, and people migrating to
  cities or abroad, rural tourism is often seen by
  planners as a magic wand to stop rural decay
• Antonis, Athens, Greece

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Proposal for the purposes ofAgroTourNet

• Agritourism is a form of alternative to mass
  tourism based on sustainability, preservation of
  culture, heritage and traditions in rural areas.
• It comprises all forms of tourism in which
  tourists visit farms and in rural villages,
  eventually board in them, and experience farming
  and various forms of rural life at close hand. It
  aims at bringing the visitor in touch with the
  natural environment, agricultural activities,
  local products, and a communitys lifestyle,
  while at the same time contributing to the host
  area economic stability

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OF COURSE, IT IS A MATTER OF DISCUSSION Thank
you for attention!