Understanding consumer behaviour in rural tourism is a necessary condition for the suc- cessful diversification of any rural socio-economic system. This paper aims to analyse the consumer behaviour of tourists and residents in an Italian marginal rural area in order to verify the opportunities...

The 2007-13 EU rural development framework is expected to reinforce endogenous development forces in European mountainous zones, mainly in peripheral rural areas, by strengthening a number of measures of the 1999 Regulation. This paper attempts to examine the prospects of the second pillar's...

La intencion del presente texto es contribuir a la reflecion sobre los fenomenos relacionados con la bueva functionalidad del mundo rural y las valoraciones que se realizan desde los medios urbanos. Pretendemos argumentar que el turismo en las zonas rurales se encueritra articulado a las nuevas...

Within a context of global trade liberalisation and constrained national budgets, agriculture in many countries has proved incapable of sustaining household livelihoods an d socio-economic development in rural areas. The post-war industrial success of several Asian countries has suggested...

An association of Wine Roads was developed in Greece at the beginning of the 1990s in an attempt to boost rural tourism. The association was created by wine producers in the regions of Macedonia and was then extended to Epirus, Thessaly and Thrace. Its main purpose has been the promotion of wine...

O turismo no espaço rural é uma modalidade relativamente nova e em fase de expansão no Brasil. Atraídos por uma oportunidade de mercado, muitos empreendedores rurais encontraram no turismo rural uma alternativa de obtenção de renda extra, mas depararam-se também com iniciativas públicas...

This study aims to analyze the attributes considered in choosing rural sites for tourism purposes by city dwellers and the market segmentation of rural tourism from a rural tourism demand perspective. For this purpose, this study investigates the attributes of rural areas considered in the...