An association of Wine Roads was developed in Greece at the beginning of the 1990s in an attempt to boost rural tourism … targets have been the development of local tourism, the support of cultural heritage and the improvement of product quality … State of Greece, mainly through the LEADER II program. However, socioeconomic results for the participating companies and …

Women's' agrotourist cooperatives constitute the most original type of rural tourism in Greece because of its planning … placing the localities, in which they were established, on the Greek map of "alternative tourism". …

from urban centre. We try to argue that the rural tourism is related with the news working procedures and the variations of … tourist destination. On the other hand and considering that the rural areas tourism keeps on being more diverse and … interrelated than the typologies of ordinary tourism, we also reflect and analyse the case of the countryman tourism at Extremadura …

Spanish public and private enterprises have begun to take a special interest in rural tourism. The public bodies responsible … for both tourism and rural development consider this type of tourism as an opportunity to diversify the Spanish tourist … developments in the principal elements of the Spanish demand for tourism in rural houses. This main objective can be further …

The paper addresses the main aspects and tendencies of the tourism in the context of sustainable development, of the … place and importance of rural tourism, the usefulness of using an index system in touristy and rural tourism activity, of … measuring the rural tourism activity on a country level and the need to develop it, considering its possible integration into …

, in particular. The purpose of this paper is to show the link between cultural tourism and ethnofolklor which can help on … promoting the rural tourism in Romania. We examine the perceived benefits of ethnofolklor by examining the importance of this … activity in accomplishing with cultural tourism and rural tourism. Rural tourism, as a particular form of tourism, has come to …

In this paper, we review the tourism impact from state supported events associated with Texas Rural Economic …

Swinburne University (Langworthy, Howard, Fiona & Mawson, 2006), agri-tourism is a growing phenomenon in Australia …, often most strongly associated with wine regions. Recommendations to improve include creation of tourism regions … factors. South African wineries Bruwer, 2003 identified factors that were helpful in developing a wine tourism market of South …

The tourism, as main component of national, as well as of the global economy, could not but be affected by the present … of the tourism, the demand as well as the tourism supply. The first one is affected because of the travelers’ prudence in … tourism consists in the lack of funds and this is mainly due to the fact that getting money has become a real challenge …

Tourism represents an economic activity with a special growth potential and rate that, managed in a proper way, can … past period, the development of tourism raised awareness among policy makers, local governments, tourists, etc. about the … effect of tourism on the environment, this way the development of a sustainable tourism being a necessity. The present paper …