Community-based Rural Tourism and Entrepreneurship : A Microeconomic Approach...

by Yasuo Ohe

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Community-based Rural Tourism and Entrepreneurship : A Microeconomic Approach, Paperback by Ohe, Yasuo, ISBN 9811503850, ISBN-13 9789811503856, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US To meet the rising demand for scientific evidence in the context of rural tourism research, this book explores tourism and tourism-related diversification activities performed by farming households and entrepreneurs in rural communities. To do so it adopts a consistent conceptual and empirical microeconomic approach and employs econometric methodology. Community-based rural tourism (CBRT) is attracting increasing interest in both developed and developing countries, since tourism is considered an effective way to promote rural development in all parts of the globe. Further, because information and communication technologies are developing rapidly, new types of communities are now formed more easily than ever. As such, this book covers not only traditional, closed agrarian communities, but also emerging communities formed by local nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and national networks of farmers who provide educational tourism for consumers. These emerging communities are beyond the range of traditional agrarian communities and complement each other, which helps overcome obstacles to rural tourism for farm operators and urban residents. Those communities also nurture the rural entrepreneurship that eventually will create a sustainable urban–rural relationship. This study—the first of its kind—contrib

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789811503856
• Condition: Fine

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