Tourism and agriculture : new geographies of consumption, production and rural restructuring

edited by Rebecca Maria Torres and Janet Henshall Momsen

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is one of the oldest and most basic parts of the global economy while tourism is one of the newest and most rapidly spreading. In the face of current problems of climate change, rising food prices, poverty and a global financial crisis, linkages between agriculture and tourism may provide the basis for

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Year of publication:	2011
Other Persons:	Momsen, Janet Henshall (contributor) ; Torres, Rebecca Maria (contributor)
Publisher:	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
Subject:	Agrotourismus \| Rural tourism \| Landwirtschaft \| Agriculture \| Tourismus \| Tourism \| Ländliche Entwicklung \| Rural development \| Ländlicher Raum \| Rural area \| Indien \| India \| Produktivität \| Productivity
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xv, 223 p) ill., maps
Series:	Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Tourism and Agriculture New geographies of consumption, production and rural restructuring; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part ITourism, agriculture and rural restructuring; 2 Tourism and agriculture in Hungary: post-productivist transition or new functions in rural space?; 3 The nexus between agriculture and tourism in Ghana: a case of unexploited development potential; 4 Life between the two milpas: tourism, agriculture and migration in the Yucatán; 5 Female empowerment through agritourism in rural Japan Part II Building tourism and agriculture linkages:challenges and potential6 Sustainability on a plate: linkingagriculture and food in the FijiIslands tourism industry; 7 Cracks in the pavement: conventional constraints and contemporary solutions for linking agriculture and tourism in the Caribbean; 8 Agritourism linkages in Jamaica: case study of the Negril all-inclusive hotel subsector; 9 Tourism and agriculture in Barbados: changing relationships; Part III New forms of tourism and agriculture production and consumption 10 Adopting a sheep in Abruzzo: agritourism and the preservation of transhumance farming in central Italy11 Farm-stay tourism in California: the influence of type of farming; 12 Tourism and agricultural viability:case studies from the United Statesand England; 13 Visiting winery tasting rooms: venues for education, differentiation and direct marketing; 14 New forms of tourism in Spain: wine, gastronomic and rural tourism; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	1-283-10493-8 ; 0-415-58429-9 ; 978-1-136-84923-7 ; 978-1-283-10493-7 ; 978-0-415-58429-6 ; 0-203-83440-2 ; 978-0-203-83440-4 ; 1-283-10219-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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