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Nguyen, Hoang Kim, and Amanda Weichbrodt. "Rural tourism in Vietnam : Value co-creation possibilities within rural tourism." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160197.
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Background: Customers’ easy access to information and communications technology has increased the pressure for firms to deliver good experiences within tourism. This is due to that customers can now easily compare tourism services between different firms online. The quality of experiences is affected by good service delivery that can be improved by several actors within a service ecosystem. Furthermore, service delivery leads to value co-creation between all the actors that are involved. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how firms can create good experiences via service ecosystems and how they can co-create value with local service providers. Methodology: The study follows a qualitative research approach. Findings are based on an embedded case study consisting of interviews, observation participation and information from secondary sources such as official documents and documents from the case firm. Findings: Travel firm scan create good experiences by having an organisational culture and structure that increases commitment within the organization and service ecosystem. This can be achieved by aligning organisational goals with the goals of the actors within the service ecosystem. Furthermore, experiences can be improved by technology since it allows for smoother communication within the ecosystem. Good experiences can lead to brand value, which can result in positive electronic word of mouth and more customers. More customers increase economic value within the service ecosystem, which can increase the standard of living for local service providers. In addition, service ecosystems can yield intangible value from social and environmental aspects.
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Stone, Christopher J. "Tourism associations and tourism development, with special reference to rural tourism." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1994. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20408/.
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The thesis presents the results of a critical investigation of the work and role of 'tourism associations' (TAs) as part of the tourism development system at the local scale in England and Wales. Local tourism development groups existed for a century or more before recent notions of community involvement in visitor industry initiatives came to prominence as part of the debate about 'green' tourism, and the study represents the first in-depth investigation of these groups, aimed at offering some guidance for the community tourism organisations advocated by several tourism authors. Guided by systems analysis methodology, the study presents original data on the nature and role of TM and develops theoretical consideration of such groups. Based upon these contributions to understanding, a critical assessment of the potential contribution of TM towards the development of small-scale local visitor industries as part of the local economies in qualitative terms is made. A review of relevant literature establishes that government policy has sought to develop tourism as a component of local economies in urban and rural areas. The sparse literature on tourism associations generally ascribes them lower-order publicity roles rather than the developmental functions that they could perhaps more usefully fulfil. Visitors represent a major economic opportunity for local communities, and economic multiplier studies show that local economies could benefit from becoming more visitor-oriented. However, relatively few areas benefit from conventional tourism development initiatives, particularly in the countryside, and voluntary effort may be necessary for communities to capitalise upon the visitor market. A postal questionnaire survey of a large sample of tourism associations in England and Wales established that these groups exist as a response to a perception of need for such organisations. During the 1970s and '80s there was a surge in the formation rate of TM. They were found to vary in many respects but shared common characteristics, and were classified into four basic types. While most members were businesses, many had representatives from the public sector and other organisations in membership. They undertook a broad range of useful activities, and certain public sector bodies provide financial assistance for aspects of their work. Some operated mainly as trade associations, but there are grounds for regarding all as community tourism groups to some degree. Measures of sophistication based upon the survey data and analyses are proposed, but the level of sophistication appropriate for any individual group depends upon local circumstances. An interview-based case study of four TAs working in rural Herefordshire reflected and validated many of the questionnaire survey conclusions. Each group had different approaches and priorities, particularly regarding the relative balance struck between promotion and development of the south Herefordshire visitor industry. They worked alongside tourism-oriented public sector bodies to varying degrees, and some received financial assistance for certain activities. While quantification of the effects that the TAs had on the visitor industry proved impossible, interviewees' opinions indicated that the work of the groups was valuable and that, without them, the contribution of the visitor industry to the local economy would be reduced. Analysis of the data collection stages showed that the goals of tourism associations are essentially the same as those of the more formal elements of the tourism development system, with marketing as a key focus. The work of TM can produce positive economic benefits for local economies in urban, coastal and rural locations. Recommendations for best practice are made for the associations and their roles, and the public sector is urged to help establish and help support TM. Conclusions drawn are that tourism associations have a valuable developmental role to play alongside their publicity function, and that the broad-membership association type is probably more appropriate for visitor industry development in lesser-known areas than sectoral types.
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Devine, Jonathan Hugh. "Rural Community Attitudes Towards Tourism." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DevineJH2006.pdf.
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Möller, Peter. "Young adults in rural tourism areas." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Kulturgeografi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-23702.
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This thesis examines how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas. Such a study lies at the intersection of research about tourism impacts, adult transition, and rural areas. The aim is to examine how largescale tourism affects the opportunities for young adults living in rural areas; their perception of place and the perceived opportunities and obstacles that tourism provides. The thesis utilizes a mixed method approach. A quantitative study based on micro-data on individuals identifies the patterns and magnitudes of the mechanisms by which tourism affects population change among young adults. Interview methods are used in the case study area, Sälen, to investigate these mechanisms in depth. Finally, the rural–urban dichotomy is explored in a conceptual study that asks how tourism affects the perception of a local village as either rural or urban. Young inhabitants in rural areas are rarely considered in tourism research; therefore, the main contribution of this thesis is that it illuminates how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas. The thesis reveals a substantial impact on the adult transition, mainly due to easier access to the labor market and a good supply of jobs during the high season. Further, the large number of people passing through creates flows of opportunities to make friends, get a job, or just meet people. All of these factors contribute to high mobility in these places, and to the perception of them as places where things happen. The high mobility in Sälen implies that fixed migrant categories (such as stayers and leavers) are largely insufficient. The tourism environment creates a space that is always under construction and continually producing new social relations mainly perceived as opportunities. Conceptualizing this as a modern rurality is a way to move beyond the often implicit notions of urban as modern and rural as traditional.
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Tambovceva, Т. Т. "Sustainable rural tourism development in Latvia." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/25786.
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Andriamasilalao, Haingo. "Pro-Poor Tourism in Madagascar: Rural Development Through the Tourism Industry." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584015716512392.
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Bensemann, Joanne Marie. "Copreneurship in Rural Tourism Exploring Women's Experiences." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3395.
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This study investigates copreneurship in rural tourism businesses. It explores the experiences of owners of rural tourism accommodation businesses in New Zealand within the framework of copreneurship. It also examines roles within copreneurial rural tourism businesses and studies women’s experiences of entrepreneurship specifically. Copreneurs are couples who share ownership, commitment and responsibility for a business together (Barnett and Barnett, 1989) and these couples in business together (copreneurs) are one form of family business. To date there has not been any published discussion of the concept of copreneurship and tourism, which is remarkable, given that many tourism businesses are SMEs built around lifestyle and integration of life stakeholders such as family and partners.
This dissertation represents the first attempt to study copreneurship within tourism entrepreneurship, and within a rural tourism environment specifically. It uses an interpretive approach as part of the study to give the participants a voice and to stress the methodological importance of reflexivity where the researcher is an insider to the study. Triangulation of data sources and methods, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques enables a rich understanding of copreneurial expectations, roles and responsibilities and of women’s experiences specifically. The method of the research is a postal survey of rural tourism accommodation business owners complemented by in-depth interviews with women in copreneurial business relationships.
This thesis concludes that the rural tourism accommodation sector in New Zealand is characterised by lifestylers and copreneurs running their businesses as a ‘hobby’, with the main aim being ‘to meet people’ and that non-economic, lifestyle motivations are important stimuli to business formation. Specific analysis of women’s experiences of tourism production in copreneurial situations has shown that any perception of copreneurship as a tool for enabling women to become freed from traditional gender roles may not equal the reality. Women’s voices were able to come through in both the survey and the interview part of this research, revealing that a gendered ideology persists even through copreneurial relationships in rural tourism. The copreneurs in this study have strong and widely shared preconceptions of their roles as accommodation providers and as task managers in their households; role perceptions which appear to be largely invariant of the situation. Copreneurial couples appear to engage in running the accommodation business using traditional gender-based roles mirroring those found in the private home.
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Пушкар, К. С. "Modern development of rural tourism in Ukraine." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2018. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/10774.
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Pushkar, Kateryna Serhiivna. "Modern development of rural tourism in Ukraine." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13152.
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Чумак, Лариса Федорівна, Лариса Федоровна Чумак, Larysa Fedorivna Chumak, Наталія Миколаївна Дудченко, Наталия Николаевна Дудченко, and Nataliia Mykolaivna Dudchenko. "Rural tourism: problems and perspective of development." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22971.
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Tucker, Hazel Mary. "Living with tourism : tourism, identity and change in a village in central Turkey." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1131/.
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Thomas, Joel Stuart. "Tourism and Rural Identity in the Waasland, Belgium." TopSCHOLAR®, 2004. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/233.
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The northern portion of Belgium, a region known as Flanders, is one of the most densely settled, industrialized areas in the world. Existing in small, isolated tracts, are "green spaces" mainly devoted to agricultural output.
The Flemish way of life and environment has become increasingly "urbanized." Tourism commissions operating in the countryside have drawn on Flemish heritage and identity, as well as the rural landscape to act as marketing tools. In terms of perception and the notion of a distinctly Flemish rural "space'" how are tourist flow patterns influenced? Does the process of perception result in an exclusive urban to rural pattern, or is there deviation (e.g. rural to rural)? Finally, what mechanisms are utilized by the tourism industry to create the demand for rural tourist activity -- is culture invented, or does an emerging Flemish identity reveal itself as part of the linguistic movement?
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Eruera, Alice. "Rural tourism development in the eastern Hokianga area." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/540.
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Rural Tourism is increasingly being used as a development strategy to improve the social and economic well being of rural areas. Rural Tourism encompasses a huge range of activities, natural or manmade attractions, amenities and facilities, transportation, marketing and information systems (Sharpley & Sharpley, 1997). Rural tourism is very diverse and fragmented in terms of operational structures, activities, markets and operating environments (Roberts & Hall, 2001, citing Pearce, 1989). Benefits of rural tourism have been expressed as employment growth and broadening a region’s economic base, repopulation, social improvement, and revitalization of local craft (Sharpley, 2000). Governments can play active roles in tourism. In short the literature suggests rural tourism development policy approaches require: regeneration/revitalization, horizontal and vertical integration, interdependence, stewardship/sustainability, mediation, cataclysm, service and welfare provisions, spatiality – awareness, intra and inter regional complementariness, opportunism, realism and quality (Roberts & Hall, 2001). Murphy (1985) proposed a community approach to tourism development which included formation of businesses networks, and the sharing of resources and information. For rural tourism to be successful, collaboration needs to exist amongst entrepreneurs (Wilson et al., 2001). Useful integrated approaches to rural studies include acknowledging the importance of locally controlled agendas to reach centralization, awareness of the benefits for shared ideas and funding developments, and creating appropriate tourism plans for rural areas (MacDonald & Jolliffe, 2003). There are numerous challenges when attempting rural tourism development: the total product package must be sufficient; significant investment may be required; there is the adaption to a service role; the quality of products and services and the availability of skills and resources for effective marketing (Sharpley, 2000). Tourism development requires attractions, promotion, infrastructure and services and hospitality (Wilson et al., 2001, citing Gunn, 1988). The remote Eastern Hokianga area is situated in the Far North (Northland) region of New Zealand. The area has a low population and is sparsely populated presenting an ideal place to relax with an unhurried atmosphere, flourishing fauna and flora, rich in New Zealand history and culture. This is an economically depressed area that is situated in the centre of Northland’s three key tourism icons - The Bay of Islands, the Waipoua Forest, and the top of the North Island. The location of the Eastern Hokianga presents an opportunity to create a tourism destination that will attract travellers frequenting the key tourism icons. To date there has been no research on rural tourism development conducted in the Eastern Hokianga. Although comprehensive research was conducted previously in the Hokianga by the James Henare Maori Research Centre (1999) it was concentrated specifically to the “Maori culture”. This research aims to examine and identify the key challenges of rural tourism development for the Eastern Hokianga through an analysis of rural tourism development approaches, and identifying the social and economic impacts of tourism. Key findings show that the Eastern Hokianga is an undeveloped area and does not fit with the majority of the rural tourism definitions as described in the literature. The area is displaying positive impacts of rural tourism development. The negative impacts are minimal as the Eastern Hokianga is still in the initial development stage of rural tourism. There are many integrated approaches to rural tourism development currently. A strategic approach is occurring with a tourism policy and community involvement in decision making. There is an integration approach with one RTO actively involved in the communities’ tourism association with the local businesses. Two key clustering approaches are being utilized – the Twin Coast Discovery Route and total product packaging. Regeneration is not occurring but was not an issue raised by the community, whereas a financing approach was an identified challenge by Eastern Hokianga businesses. The need to improve accessibility through infrastructure was the second key challenge to rural tourism development. The area was not restricted by the other challenges of government’s role, education / experience and marketing.
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Eftychiou, Evi. "Power and tourism : negotiating identity in rural Cyprus." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10420.
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This thesis focuses on the disputed identity of rural Cyprus. It is an ethnographic study on tourism that argues that the power of western hegemony, not only defines but also reverses the definition of ‘modern’ identity in the cultural setting of Cyprus in a way that its authority is maintained and legitimized. By focusing on identity politics and tourism in the Troodos mountainous region, this study examines the conflict between native elites and locals over the definition of modernity. In the postcolonial setting of the 1960s, native elites reproduced the western vision of ‘development’, ‘progress’ and ‘modernity’, as expressed in Europe after the Second World War. The invented concept of ‘modernity’ was introduced by native elites and was translated into policies and strategies towards the achievement of rapid ‘progress’ and the development of mass tourism in the coastal zones of Cyprus. As a result, the Cypriot authorities neglected Troodos mountainous region as a low--‐priority area and its residents were exposed as underdeveloped, backward peasants. The economic boom of the 1970s and 1980s, provided to rural residents the opportunity to, finally achieve ‘progress’, by reproducing the mass tourism model. In the meantime though, the native elites reversed the definition of modernity, which reproduced the western principles of sustainable development, environmental and cultural heritage protection. The ‘underdeveloped’ region of Troodos, was now identified as ideal for the implementation of environment and heritage conservation projects, with the ultimate goal of developing small scale, cultural tourism in the area. In this context, native elites appropriate material tradition, in other words elements that were once classified as evidence of backwardness, in order to achieve ‘modernity’. The denial of locals to reproduce the new paradigm of development and their persistence to strive for material modernity left them once again exposed as ‘backward’, ‘ignorant’ and ‘parvenus’ peasants.
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Rawat, Sunny. "Rural tourism for sustainable development in Darjeeling Himalaya." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2022. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4781.
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Nikolaev, Kiril, and Kateryna Babikova. "Statutory basis of tourism organization in Ukraine rural regions." Thesis, London, IASHE, 2012. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/38641.
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Rhodey, Rene Corene. "Identifying rural touristic preferences : a case of Orleans County /." Online version of thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11596.
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Zhezherya, O., and I. Sagaydak. "Pressure of tourism on environment." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31786.
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The Original fashion is on rest in rural locality which acquires force in Europe the last years, reached to Ukraine. Under rural tourism mean and «green» (rest to 1-2 days, gathering berries, mushrooms, relaxing on the beach and others like that), and environmental (when tourists simply look after by nature), and agrotоurism (during the rest can take part in collection of fruit, vegetables, supervision of animals).
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Dolezal, Claudia. "Questioning empowerment in community-based tourism in rural Bali." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2015. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/14e3dc07-4d2f-4ab0-8a61-9dba6470cf49.
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The term 'empowerment' is used with greater frequency in tourism for development, particularly in the context of community-based tourism (CBT), which is often referred to as a tool to 'empower' communities in the initiation, implementation and management of tourism. Still, critical and empirically grounded research on empowerment remains limited, particularly as emerging from social relationships in CBT. These are in many cases regarded as disempowering for community members, such as the tourism encounter and community relationships in cases where they lead to conflicts and jealousy, rather than collaboration. This research analyses these social relationships prevalent in CBT to take them as a potential starting point for social empowerment. Its aim is to locate social spaces of empowerment in CBT by unravelling power relations between the actors involved at local level. In these social spaces of empowerment, the basis of empowerment is generative power, defined as collective power with and power within, based on self-respect, to achieve power to generate positive change and to overcome power over (i.e. dominating power). The fieldwork was conducted in three rural villages in Bali, which engage in CBT and are supported by a local NGO that aims at empowering communities. The methodology draws upon ethnographic traditions alongside semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Symbolic interactionism provides the methodological position, regarding meaning as constructed through interaction. A reflexive chapter discusses the intersubjectivities between the researcher and participants and links the methodology with the intellectual argument and the findings of the study. Empirical evidence reveals that empowerment opportunities are unequal in the studied villages, with obstacles such as language, a lack in skills and caste hindering villagers' empowerment. The village tourism committees (VTCs), a local and trained elite, take control over the space of CBT and the tourism encounter, by employing notions of 'authenticity' to sell the CBT product. Although CBT creates hope for change and empowerment for community members, it currently remains empowering for a few, while others generally experience tokenistic pseudo-participation and a silent involvement. At the same time, this study reveals first signs of empowerment based on power with and power within, generated in the tourism encounter and through villagers' social ties, which are visualised in a 'CBT power diagram'.
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Luca, Claudia Atena. "Memorable experiences in rural tourism : Study of Rural areas from Cluj Napoca County, Romania." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Turismvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28876.
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With the shift nowadays towards an experience economy, the increased attention placed on memorable experiences and how to stage them can be viewed as a major trend which can act as a source of information regarding the stories that people share about themselves and their self-perceptions, as well as helping businesses make a step towards their guests. In this vein, rural tourism is highly consumed by people searching for these unique and memorable experiences, but the knowledge on tourists’ experiences in a rural setting are very limited. Therefore, this paper seeks to examine what memorable experiences tourists encounter in the rural setting, and more importantly, why were they memorable. In order to answer these questions, the researcher undertook a qualitative approach and in depth semi structured interviews were conducted with people who travelled in the Cluj Napoca County from Romania. The findings revealed an amalgam of experiences that people encounter in the rural setting, combined with various reasons why the experiences were considered memorable in the eyes of respondents. The main findings show how the optimal memorable tourism experience is usually comprised of several factors involving multiple experiential dimensions, and an important influence is represented by social interactions alongside positive emotions.
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Cabral, Bernardo Manuel Coelho. "Analysis of the viability of a rural tourism investment." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13243.
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Mestrado em FinançasNos últimos anos, o turismo em Portugal tem crescido significativamente sendo que o Algarve não é excepção. Mais concretamente, só no último ano, o número de turistas que visitaram o Algarve e a receita turística correspondente aumentaram 3,9% e 10,2% respectivamente. Esta tendência é esperada que continue nos anos vindouros. Além disso, o turismo rural também é um mercado em crescimento e cada vez é maior o número de pessoas que o procuram. Só nos ultimos três anos o número de dormidas aumentou 62,2%. Considerando esta tendência, este trabalho pretende analisar a viabilidade de um investimento num pequeno hotel rural no Algarve, usando a informação disponível neste sector e utilizando as ferramentas financeiras comumente usadas nesta indústria mais concretamente através de uma análise sobre o valor actual líquido. Todos os resultados desta pesquisa apontam para o facto de que este é um projecto que vale a pena investir tendo-se obtido um VAL de €304 474. Acrescentando ainda o facto da conjuntura actual favorável verificada no sector do turismo actual, este projecto tem potencial e deveria ser desenvolvido.
In the past few years, Portugal tourism is increasing significantly and Algarve's tourism is not an exception. More concretely, just in the year of 2015, the number of tourists that visited Algarve and the correspondent touristic revenue grew 3,9% and 10,2% respectively. This tendence is expected to continue in the years to come. Moreover, the rural tourism is also a market that is increasing and the number of people that pursuit it is increasing too. Just only in the past three years the number of sleeps raised 62,2%. Basing on this tendence, this work has the scope of analyzing the viability of an investment in a small rural hotel in Algarve, using the known information in this sector and through financial tools that are commonly used in this industry, more concretely an analysis of the net present value. After analyze all the results in this research we conclude that this is a project worth investing for as we get a NPV of €304 474. Adding also the favorable conjuncture that is verified in tourism rural sector nowadays, this project has potential and should be invested in.
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Blinman, Teerawan. "An investigation of tourism impacts on rural communities : a study of Homestay Tourism in Thailand." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579517.
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Throughout Thailand there is a considerable pressure on communities to seek alternative forms of economic development. Tourism, as one of the major sources which has potential for economic growth, was introduced to rural communities in a form of homestay tourism. The Thai government has promoted a homestay scheme to a number of communities across the country as a tool for rural community development. The emphasis is placed on improving the quality of life of local people by using the resources which they already have as tourist attractions. With the growth of tourism in rural communities, it is inevitable that change has been brought to the communities as revealed in this study. This dissertation investigates the impacts of homestay tourism as reported by local residents in rural communities in Thailand. The research also developed a management framework which was adapted from the Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) framework for homestay tourism in Thailand. Three homestay destinations in Thailand were chosen as case studies which display differences in numbers of houses for hosting tourists, tourism resources, number of years they have been in business and in approaches to tourism management and operations. However, what they share in common is the fact that the sites have been certified by the Office of Tourism Development (OTD) as reaching the standard of quality in terms of management, security, services, and activities for running homestay. In order to gain insights from the local residents regarding tourism III their communities, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and participant observations were the empirical research methods applied. These techniques were used to triangulate evidence and validate data. The findings showed that the homestay case studies have provided evidence of impacts arising from the development of tourism in the communities. While some impacts were caused by the relationships between the hosts and guests, others resulted from the communities' differing implementations of the OTD's management framework of homestay. This research also identified a number of actions which aim at policy-makers in central and local government bodies in Thailand.
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Bergner, Angela. "Tourismus als Mittel zur Armutsminderung in Nepal : das "Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Programme (TRPAP)" /." Stuttgart : ibidem, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3014773&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Chang, Jung-Chen. "The role of tourism in sustainable rural development : A multiple case study in rural Taiwan." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1629/.
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This thesis adopts an integrated tourism research approach to investigate the role of tourism in sustainable rural development. It identifies what the key ingredients of sustainable rural tourism development (SRTD) could be, which include an effective policy framework, good partnerships between stakeholders and a strong connection between tourism and local resources. A qualitative approach is adopted in investigating the cases of the Puli, Yuchih, and Renai townships in Taiwan, and the investigation focuses on three key concepts of policy, partnership and place (3Ps). Several issues emerged from the investigation. Due to dependence on central government support, the public-private partnership appears problematic; however, the strong level of business support networks and community organisations engaging in tourism strengthens local initiative in promoting sustainable development. The effects of tourism on local development are perceived as having more positive outcomes than negative ones, even though, the contribution of tourism to SRTD is still considered limited due to the scale of the rural decline problem it is trying to address. The influential correlations between policy, partnership, and place that emerged from the empirical findings evidently support the 3 Ps integrated tourism concept proposed by this research. This provides a more realistic and holistic understanding of tourism in rural areas. The thesis contributes to the literature by introducing the 3 Ps integrated tourism concept, and empirically, through the case studies, it also contributes to the understanding of current rural tourism development in an East Asian context.
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DIAS, Pollyana Pugas. "O desenvolvimento do ecoturismo em Pernambuco: uma análise sob a ótica da governança." Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, 2013. http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/4646.
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The tourism market growth is gaining expressiveness while economic activity, given its ability to generate income and job. In Brazil, after 2003, with the creation of Tourism Ministry, the industry have been gaining space and becoming more diversified, between the different strands observed. Ecotourism as an alternative has a great potential. However, there are still few studies in the literature to study ecotourism from this approach. Thus, the aim of this work was investigate the existing supply segment of ecotourism in the state of Pernambuco, starting with an analysis from the perspective of governance. Therefore, we investigated 18 ecotourist companies in Pernambuco. Primary data was collected through the use of questionnaires, plus a survey of secondary data. Then the data was interpreted from an analytical model based on aspects of governance structures discussed in the theoretical framework of the new institutional economics (NIE). The results revealed the existence of a growing ecotourism market. These companies offer services to 18 destinations in the state, developing activities that integrate the supply of ecotourism activities with adventure tourism. The agents in that market suffer from weaknesses that range from business structuring to the difficulty of these companies fit into the structures of regulation. They still rely on factors stimulating business, from the development actions promoted by government agencies and membership organizations. We concluded that the ecotourism market in the state of Pernambuco is an activity still in development, but it needs the action of targeted funding agencies that assist in greater formalization and professionalization of the sector.
O crescimento do mercado turístico vem ganhando expressividade enquanto atividade econômica, dada sua capacidade de geração de empego e renda. No Brasil, a partir do ano de 2003, com a criação do Ministério do Turismo, o setor vem ganhando espaço e se diversificando e, entre as diversas vertentes observadas, o Ecoturismo figura como uma alternativa de grande potencial. Entretanto, ainda são escassos na literatura trabalhos que estudem o ecoturismo a partir desse enfoque. Dessa forma esse trabalho objetivou investigar a oferta existente do segmento de ecoturismo no estado de Pernambuco, partindo de uma análise sob a ótica da governança. Para tanto foram investigadas 18 empresas do universo ecoturístico de Pernambuco. Os dados primários foram levantados mediante o uso de questionários, além de um levantamento de dados secundários. Em seguida os dados foram interpretados a partir de um modelo analítico baseado nos aspectos de estruturas de governança abordados no referencial teórico da nova economia institucional (NEI). Os resultados revelaram a existência de um mercado ecoturístico crescente. Essas empresas oferecem serviços em 18 destinos no estado, desenvolvendo atividades que integram a oferta de ecoturismo com atividades do turismo de aventura. Os agentes presentes nesse mercado padecem de fragilidades que vão desde a estruturação empresarial até a dificuldade dessas empresas em se adequarem a estruturas de regulação. As mesmas ainda contam com fatores de estímulo ao negócio, provenientes das ações de fomento, promovidas por órgãos públicos e organizações associativas. Concluiu-se que o mercado ecoturístico no estado de Pernambuco é uma atividade ainda em desenvolvimento, mas que necessita da ação direcionada de órgãos de fomento que auxiliem na maior formalização e profissionalização do setor.
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Oussoulous, Nada. "L’émergence d’une destination de tourisme rural et rôle des résidents étrangers : le cas du pays d’Ouarzazate." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30004/document.
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La thèse ambitionne d'analyser les processus et les mécanismes qui sont à l’origine de l’émergence d’une destination touristique intérieure, puis de l’articulation entre d’une part ce tourisme considéré ici comme un tourisme d’arrière-pays, et d’autre part le littoral et les grands pôles de compétitivité touristiques de proximité. Son deuxième objectif est d’évaluer jusqu’à quel point ce produit et ces territoires tendent à s’autonomiser par rapport aux destinations balnéaires et urbaines. Cette recherche prévoit aussi l’évaluation de la cohérence et les modes de coordination entre les différents acteurs en présence au regard de l’extrême diversité des représentations du patrimoine, des enjeux identitaires et économiques résultant des processus de mise en tourisme et de patrimonialisation, ceci toujours dans les arrière-pays. Parmi les acteurs qui se trouvent derrière ces dynamiques dans ces arrière-pays, les investisseurs étrangers occupent une très bonne place. Notre recherche propose d’aborder les principales questions posées dans la problématique générale à travers ces porteurs de projet, ces acteurs étrangers du territoire, investissent principalement dans des acquisitions ou de nouvelles réalisations de biens immobiliers. A travers les porteurs de projets étrangers, nous proposons le traitement des questions concernant le profil et le rôle de ces acteurs , les motivations de leurs installation et investissement dans cet arrière-pays, les perceptions mutuelles (population autochtone et étrangers) et puis la concrétisation du processus de la patrimonialisation grâce à la perception et l’image étrangère. Le terrain retenu pour les besoins de cette recherche est la zone des oasis du Draa et des vallées du versant sud du Haut Atlas centralThe project aims to analyze the processes and the mechanisms that are responsible of the emergence of an interior destination and also the relationship between tourism, that is considered here as a back-tourism countries, and also the other coastal destination. The principal objective is to evaluate how these territories tend to become autonomous in relation to urban and coastal destinations, The chosen land for the purposes of this research is the Draa oasis area of southern and valleys of the high atlas. This research also includes assessing the coherence and coordination mechanisms between the different actors involved in the light of the extreme diversity of representations of heritage, identity and economic challenges resulting from tourism developing process and patrimonialisation. Among the actors who are behind these dynamics in this land, investors have an important place. Our research proposes to discuss many questions through these investors who are foreign persons installed in the area and primarily invest in acquisitions or restore the old Kasbahs and ksours to use it as a guest house. Through their projects, the foreign investors develop a new activity. Through the holders of foreign projects, we propose addressing issues concerning the profile and role of these actors, the motivations of their installation and investment in the interior destination, mutual perceptions (indigenous and foreign population), and then the realization of tourism process through the foreign image
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Demirbas, Topcu Elif. "Agri-tourism:as A New Element Ofrural Development." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608988/index.pdf.
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AGRI-TOURISM: AS A NEW ELEMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DemirbaS Topcu, Elif
MS., City and Regional Planning Department, Urban Design
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baykan Günay October 2007, 187 Pages This thesis study is developed under the lights of new developments related to rural tourism sector in the world. With the effects of emerging term &lsquo
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in 1980s, sustainable tourism concept has found new implementation areas. The increasing demand on the tourism activities taking place in rural areas has lead the governments to find ways of benefiting from this tendency in a sustainable way. Since the early 1990s, a new type of rural tourism called as agri-tourism has been developed as a concept that integrates agriculture and tourism activities in the western world. Whether it is evaluated as a tourism or agriculture development element, it is a new element of country planning. Nowadays, it is seen that there is also a new tendency for agri-tourism at local level through local initiatives in Turkey. Although there is still no governmental regulation for agri-tourism activities, political and practical developments demonstrate that the sector should be evaluated as a planning element for Turkey. The main purpose of this study is examining the rural development element characteristic of agri-tourism concept as an element for enhancing the rural tourism activities in Turkey. To achieve the purpose, two examples from EU- Lublin and Tuscany Regions were examined to understand the dynamics of agri-tourism as a planning element. For these study interpretative-comparative-textual method is used. Accordingly, the present condition in Turkey is evaluated through the obtained data and SWOT Analysis method was employed for analyzing the data. Accordingly, some suggestions are presented for developing agri-tourism sector in Turkey.
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Mohamed, Noorizan. "Conservation in Malaysia : landscape, tourism and culture." Thesis, University of York, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2540/.
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Thuot, Lea, Giuliana Netto, and Amanda Hachey. "Supporting Sustainable Rural Tourism in British Columbia through Strategic Incentives." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2594.
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This research investigates the potential incentives have on driving behaviour change towards the adoption of sustainable business practices by rural tourism operators in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Even though operators in rural BC have recognized the importance of making their business practices sustainable so that future generations are able to enjoy living and visiting these communities, they claim there is a lack of incentives from the industry. To support the BC rural tourism industry in attaining its aspiration to enhance the social/cultural, environmental and economic well being of the province, a model and corresponding recommendations on how to better support operators through strategic incentives was developed. Using the lens of strategic sustainable development, understanding the mechanisms of behaviour change and the role of operators as early adopters of sustainable practices, this research takes a whole systems perspective to identify in what ways sustainability can be encouraged by the tourism industry through the use of incentives in the context of rural BC.
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Briedenhann, Jennifer. "An evaluation framework for rural tourism projects : a respondent perspective." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2004. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/9943/.
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This study formulates a proposed framework for the evaluation of rural tourism projects. Specifically it attempts to establish the role of the public sector in the governance and management of rural tourism; to develop an index of criteria against which rural tourism projects can be evaluated; to suggest how such evaluation could be implemented; and to establish with whom the responsibility for the management of the evaluation process should rest. A Delphi Survey comprising 60 panellists from Britain and South Africa, a focus group held in South Africa and eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted in South Africa and Britain were utilised in developing the evaluation framework. A panel of experts, drawn from the academic, public, consultant and operational sectors, have consensually developed an index comprising criteria pertaining both to the macro-impact of rural tourism projects on the host environment and to micro issues impacting the commercial success of individual tourism projects. Respondents indicate that the public sector has a pivotal role in guiding and supporting the creation of an environment conducive to the development of the rural tourism sector. This role is envisaged as most compelling at local government level. Although the onus for the evaluation of rural tourism projects is perceived to rest with local authorities, lack of capacity at this level was identified as a major constraint. There is evidence that rural tourism operators generally lack business and operational capacity and that training is a vital element in ensuring the commercial success of the sector. In recognising the value of the concept of utilisation-focused evaluation as a tool for building capacity and generating information for utilisation by project operators and local authorities alike, the study suggests its adoption at the individual project level as an integral element of the rural tourism development process.
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Thulemark, Maria. "Moved by the mountains : migration into tourism dominated rural areas." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-43914.
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Broadaway, Sally. "Bicycle tourism and rural community development: an asset based approach." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13651.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional Community Planning
Stephanie A. Rolley
As bicycle tourists seek interesting experiences along low traffic roads, rural communities are poised to embrace bicycle tourism as a community development strategy. Asset based community development provides a methodology for communities to utilize assets that already exist within their communities to meet the needs of these tourists. The community capitals framework then provides a platform for analyzing and discussing the existing assets, as well as helping hone in on ways communities can develop further. The Sunken Lands region of Northeast Arkansas is one such rural region seeking to embrace bicycle tourism. Two case studies of communities that have capitalized on their existing assets to accommodate bicyclists were completed to explore potential for using the community capitals framework to guide pursuit of bicycle tourism. A snowball approach to interviewing community members in Collinwood, Tennessee and Farmington, Missouri was used to discover the details of bicycle accommodations, the processes of pursuing bicycle tourism, the people and groups involved, the types of assets used, and any challenges faced in implementation. Additionally, existing literature was used to substantiate each case and provide a more robust community picture. Emerging from the case studies were commonalities that aligned with the community capitals framework and Emery and Flora’s (2006) theory that community change is driven by social capital. The result is a tool that aligns community assets with the needs of bicycle tourists with the community capitals framework.
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Dorjsuren, Amartuvshin. "Political ecology of inequality in tourism development in rural Mongolia." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2014. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19575/.
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Tourism is often advocated as a means of poverty reduction in the developing world, despite limited evidence about its effectiveness. There is even less research on tourism's wider effects on standards of living and general inequality in developing countries. This study explores the views of different people involved in tourism development about tourism's contribution to quality of livelihoods and standards of living, and about associated equality and inequality, as a consequence of tourism development in rural Mongolia. Use is made of a critical realist stance and three theoretical approaches: a political ecology, an actor-perspective and a capability approach. Taken in combination, these approaches focus on the macro-level structural aspects of tourism and standards of living, the associated micro-level actor relations, and the relations within and among them. The study explores two case study rural areas with substantial tourism elements: the Lake Hovsgol region and the Gobi Desert region, in northern and southern Mongolia respectively. Qualitative methods were used, including 52 semi-structured, face-to-face and focus group interviews with 61 respondents, participant observation, and analysis of government and agency reports. Analysis of the sources was undertaken using a framework approach. The study findings suggest that tourism's contribution to grassroots people's standards of living was substantial and often accounted for more than half of household incomes, despite the short tourist season. Households with below average standards of living appeared to benefit the least from tourism in comparison to households with average and above average standards of living. It is argued that this relates to the lack of capability of many among the less-well-off to become involved in tourism. It was also shown that people held differing notions of tourism's contribution to inequalities. Tourism had varied environmental, economic and sociocultural burdens and benefits, resulting, for example, in water pollution, deforestation, soil degradation and the alteration of traditional patterns of nomadic culture. Tourism also competed with other economic sectors for natural resources. Tourism's burdens and benefits were influenced by the political economy of state governance, taxation policies, party politics and corruption. Many local actors considered that tourism development led by the private sector had only limited benefits for the host population, while private sector respondents considered it had led to substantial economic benefits. Community-based tourism programmes led by International Development Organisations were sometimes considered less efficient and destabilising in the long run as they created relatively low quality and low expenditure tourism. It was found that individual actors exerted agency and found some room for manoeuvre in order to achieve their goals within the structural constraints. Yet modest grassroots people seem to have been bearing a disproportionately large proportion of the problems or costs of the structural forces. They suffered most from low wages and commodity price inflation, limited access to natural resources due to conservation policies, and a lack of information and opportunities. Yet some of these grassroots people exerted much agency, such as through the use of their informal social networks to make the most of the tourism-related opportunities.
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Ibanescu, Bogdan Constantin. "Les conditions de la mise en tourisme d'un espace rural périphérique de l'Union européenne : la province de Moldavie en Roumanie." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00812545.
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Dans notre recherche on a essayé de découvrir quelle est la position de la Moldavie, sur le marché touristique interne et externe et dans quelle mesure sa périphéricité joue un rôle positif dans le développement touristique.On a vu que l'espace de la recherche se confronte avec une triple périphéricité, qui agit à tous les niveaux : périphérie spatiale de l'Union Européenne, périphérie économique et décisionnelle de la Roumanie, et dernièrement une périphérie figée qui agit dans l'intérieur de la région entre les centres urbains et les zones rurales. On a observé que la région présente une concentration plus dense de ressources potentielles touristiques dans sa partie occidentale, montagneuse. Les départements de Suceava, Neamţ, Bacău et Vrancea bénéficient pleinement de leur disposition dans un cadre plus attractif, le tourisme de montagne ayant un grand succès en Roumanie. De nos jours, la Moldavie présente un retard du point de vue touristique par rapport à la moyenne nationale, retard qui se traduit par le nombre de places de logements, l'indice d'occupation, les arrivées ou les nuitées. Malgré tout ça, la région a connu une évolution foudroyante des unités de logement dans les dernières décennies. Sur le fond de la popularisation du tourisme rural et de ses différentes formes, la pension rurale devient de plus en plus perceptible. La dynamique des arrivées et des nuitées touristiques de l'espace rural moldave dessine plusieurs zones distinctes en Moldavie. Le département de Suceava est le plus dynamique, sa croissance se basant sur quelques centres régionaux auxquels l'on ajoute des communes mono-destination. Le département de Neamţ enregistre une dynamique positive basée sur quelques centres locaux à spécifique diffèrent, ce qui la positionne en deuxième position comme importance touristique en Moldavie. Le département de Bacău se remarque par la chute des activités touristiques de Slănic Moldova et Târgu-Ocna, anciens centres touristiques pendant la période communiste, mais descendus de nos jours à cause de la mauvaise gestion après 1990. L'enquête appliquée auprès des touristes a identifié un profil contrastant du visiteur de la zone rurale moldave. Ces contrastes sont une conséquence de la période communiste et du manque d'implication (organisationnelle, affective, décisionnelle) du touriste dans l'organisation des voyages.
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Thompson, Tammy L. "A tourism market/rural hub analysis : the case of Genesee County, New York /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10877.
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Panyik, Emese. "A governance approach to integrated rural tourism: factors influencing organisational performance and tourism support of local development organisations." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/10309.
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Doutoramento em Gestão em TurismoAo longo das últimas três décadas, o envolvimento das comunidades na formulação de políticas locais tem vindo a ganhar cada vez mais atenção como uma abordagem sustentável para o desenvolvimento rural na União Europeia (UE) e no mundo. Emergendo da globalização, novas estruturas de governação têm desafiado a base territorial restricta da autoridade do Estado soberano através do envolvimento de uma rede complexa e de autoorganização de atores governamentais e não-governamentais na tomada de decisões coletivas. A reestruturação territorial e institucional das zonas rurais, associada à expansão da governança rural, ganhou atenção considerável na literatura. No entanto, o potencial de empregar princípios de governança como fatores que determinam as direções de desenvolvimento rural através de desempenho organizacional e apoio no turismo não tem sido amplamente explorado na literatura. Deste modo, o principal objetivo desta tese consiste no emprego de ‘integração’, ‘participação’ e ‘empowerment’ como fatores críticos que influenciam os rumos do desenvolvimento rural (1) através do desempenho organizacional das organizações de governança rural e (2) apoio no turismo de organizações de desenvolvimento rural tendo em vista a validação da abordagem de governança para o turismo integrado. Ao longo deste duplo objectivo geral, a tese é dividida numa componente qualitativa de ‘desempenho’ e numa componente quantitativa de ‘apoio’. Seguindo uma abordagem sistemática baseada num sistema conceptual, foram realizadas 38 entrevistas em profundidade com pessoas chave envolvendo gestores do programa LEADER da UE na Hungria (34% do número total de Grupos de Ação Local [GAL]), seguido por um levantamento de campo transversal realizado através de um sistema de recolha de dados na Internet, tendo resultado em 662 questionários válidos para uma taxa de resposta de 63.6%. Os resultados da componente “desempenho” revelaram padrões na implementação dos princípios de governança, que por sua vez permitiram a identificação de fatores que permitem e restringem o desempenho organizacional. Os resultados da componente “apoio” permitiram destacar que o ponto de vista de redes de desenvolvimento local nos princípios de governança não é homogéneo. Diferenças significativas foram encontradas entre organizações responsáveis pelo planeamento e os grupos de aconselhamento. Contudo, os resultados sugeriram que a dimensão sustentável de turismo rural integrado é um prognosticador da contribuição do turismo para o desenvolvimento global da comunicade e para o apoio do turismo ao longo das redes de desenvolvimento local. Este estudo responde a uma necessidade crescente de investigação, que resulta da proliferação à escala mundial de formações de governança em sistemas de administração pública, tanto no lado dos investigadores como no lado dos praticantes.
Over the past three decades, community involvement in local policy-making has gained increasing attention as a sustainable approach to rural development in the European Union (EU) and worldwide. Emerging from globalisation, new governance structures have challenged the strict territorial base of sovereign state authority by involving a complex, self-organising network of governmental and non-governmental actors in collective decisionmaking. The territorial and institutional restructuring of rural areas associated with the expansion of rural governance has gained considerable attention in the literature. However, the potential of employing governance principles as factors determining the directions of rural development through organisational performance and tourism support has not been the focus of analyses. Thus, the main objective of this thesis is to employ ‘integration’, ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’ as critical factors influencing the directions of rural development through (1) organisational performance and (2) tourism support of rural governance organisations in order to validate a governance approach to integrated tourism. Along this two-fold general objective, the thesis is divided into a qualitative ‘performance’ component, and a quantitative ‘support’ component. Following a systematic approach based on a conceptual framework, 38 indepth, key-informant interviews were conducted with programme managers of the EU LEADER initiative for participatory rural development in Hungary (34% of the overall number of LEADER Local Action Groups [LAGs]), followed by a cross-sectional field survey undertaken by Internet-based data collection from four local development networks including the LAGs, resulting in 662 usable questionnaires for a 63.6% response rate. Findings of the ‘performance’ component revealed patterns in the implementation of governance principles, which in turn allowed for the identification of enabling and restricting factors of organisational performance. Results of the ‘support’ component highlighted that the view of local development networks on governance principles is not homogenous. Significant differences have been found between organisations with a planning competence and the advisory offices. However, the results suggest that the sustainable dimension of integrated rural tourism is a predictor of the contribution of tourism to overall community development and tourism support across local development networks. This investigation responds to an increasing need of research resulting from the worldwide proliferation of governance formations in public administration systems on both the researchers and the practitioners’ side.
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Todorov, Kiril <1978>. "Entrepreneurship influential factors in development of rural tourism as diversified rural activity in Republic of Macedonia." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7029/1/Todorov_Kiril_tesi.pdf.
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Rural tourism is relatively new product in the process of diversification of the rural economy in Republic of Macedonia. This study used desk research and life story interviews of rural tourism entrepreneurs as qualitative research method to identify prevalent success influential factors. Further quantitative analysis was applied in order to measure the strength of influence of identified success factors. The primary data for the quantitative research was gathered using telephone questionnaire composed of 37 questions with 5-points Likert scale. The data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) by SmartPLS 3.1.6. Results indicated that human capital, social capital, entrepreneurial personality and external business environment are predominant influential success factors. However, human capital has non-significant direct effect on success (p 0.493) nonetheless the effect was indirect with high level of partial mediation through entrepreneurial personality as mediator (VAF 73%). Personality of the entrepreneur, social capital and business environment have direct positive affect on entrepreneurial success (p 0.001, 0.003 and 0.045 respectably). Personality also mediates the positive effect of social capital on entrepreneurial success (VAF 28%). Opposite to the theory the data showed no interaction between social and human capital on the entrepreneurial success. This research suggests that rural tourism accommodation entrepreneurs could be more successful if there is increased support in development of social capital in form of conservation of cultural heritage and natural attractions. Priority should be finding the form to encourage and support the establishment of formal and informal associations of entrepreneurs in order to improve the conditions for management and marketing of the sector. Special support of family businesses in the early stages of the operation would have a particularly positive impact on the success of rural tourism. Local infrastructure, access to financial instruments, destination marketing and entrepreneurial personality have positive effect on success.
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Todorov, Kiril <1978>. "Entrepreneurship influential factors in development of rural tourism as diversified rural activity in Republic of Macedonia." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7029/.
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Rural tourism is relatively new product in the process of diversification of the rural economy in Republic of Macedonia. This study used desk research and life story interviews of rural tourism entrepreneurs as qualitative research method to identify prevalent success influential factors. Further quantitative analysis was applied in order to measure the strength of influence of identified success factors. The primary data for the quantitative research was gathered using telephone questionnaire composed of 37 questions with 5-points Likert scale. The data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) by SmartPLS 3.1.6. Results indicated that human capital, social capital, entrepreneurial personality and external business environment are predominant influential success factors. However, human capital has non-significant direct effect on success (p 0.493) nonetheless the effect was indirect with high level of partial mediation through entrepreneurial personality as mediator (VAF 73%). Personality of the entrepreneur, social capital and business environment have direct positive affect on entrepreneurial success (p 0.001, 0.003 and 0.045 respectably). Personality also mediates the positive effect of social capital on entrepreneurial success (VAF 28%). Opposite to the theory the data showed no interaction between social and human capital on the entrepreneurial success. This research suggests that rural tourism accommodation entrepreneurs could be more successful if there is increased support in development of social capital in form of conservation of cultural heritage and natural attractions. Priority should be finding the form to encourage and support the establishment of formal and informal associations of entrepreneurs in order to improve the conditions for management and marketing of the sector. Special support of family businesses in the early stages of the operation would have a particularly positive impact on the success of rural tourism. Local infrastructure, access to financial instruments, destination marketing and entrepreneurial personality have positive effect on success.
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Avenzora, Ricky. "Integrated and Ecological Planning of Sustainable Tourism Development in A rural Area in Indonesia." Doctoral thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B15A-7.
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Monteiro, Ana Lúcia Vitela. "Turismo e território. Litoral Alentejano.Turismo como meio de desenvolvimento de pequenos aglomerados urbanos." Master's thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitectura, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2897.
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Tese de Mestrado em Arquitectura do Planeamento Urbano e TerritorialO Projecto Final pretende integrar um território muito específico, com uma realidade muito diversa, como Odemira, nos roteiros turísticos através de uma intervenção integrada que pretende promover o desenvolvimento dos pequenos aglomerados urbanos. O trabalho passa por uma reflexão que enquadra as diferentes realidades que operam no dia-a-dia de quem planeia, onde se tenta ter uma percepção do que é a realidade turística num território como Odemira, e onde convergem diferentes interesses, forças, instrumentos de planeamento e gestão territorial, e principalmente num território em que a cultura, as gentes e tradições são o seu maior bem e qualidade. Assim, procura-se implementar uma estratégia a nível concelhio, baseada na criação de um produto turístico integrado e qualificado “Odemira”. Para tal, foi realizado um plano estratégico para o desenvolvimento turístico do Concelho, que privilegia uma intervenção integrada no interior do Concelho, baseada na existência de redes de produtos turísticos, que possam proporcionar algum desenvolvimento para este território. Com este propósito, desenvolveu-se uma estrutura de redes turísticas que cobrem a totalidade do território, com pontos específicos (pequenos aglomerados urbanos - aldeias) onde se localizam equipamentos, serviços, alojamento e infraestruturas de apoio turístico. Será desenvolvido um modelo de intervenção, incidente numa das aldeias locais, baseado nas suas especificidades. Com a elaboração deste trabalho concluo que apesar da ruralidade deste território, e do pouco investimento para o desenvolvimento do mesmo, através da elaboração de estudos e de planos de intervenção direccionados, uma intervenção turística integrada pode proporcionar ao interior do concelho, e aos pequenos aglomerados urbanos um desenvolvimento e dinamismo que mais nenhuma actividade terá capacidade para tal.
This final project intends to integrate a very specific territory with different realities, like Odemira, in the tourist guidebooks through an integrated intervention that aims for the development of small cities. The work is based on the reflection of different realities that operate in the day by day of those who are in charge of planning, and on the fundamental notion of the sustainable tourism development in the region of Odemira. This is where different interests, influences, planning instruments and territorial management converge in a territory in which the culture, the people and the traditions are its main wealth and quality. Therefore, the implementation of a strategy at a local political level based on the creation of a tourist integrated and qualified product such as “Odemira” it is needed. Consequently it was elaborated a tactical plan for the tourist development of the district, which privileges an integrated intervention in the interior of the district. This intervention is based on the existence of corporative nets of tourist products as well as on cultural and landscape touring, and rural tourism which could provide a large development to territory. With this purpose, there was developed a structure of tourism nets that cover the totality of the territory, with specific zones (small cities - villages) where all the necessary equipments, services, accommodations and infrastructures of tourist support were provided. It will be developed a model of intervention, based on the specificities of the local villages. At the end of this study we may conclude that, in spite of the rural characteristics and the little investment found in this territory, the preparation of studies and plans of directed intervention, as well as tourist integrated intervention can provide, as no other, a good development and dynamism to the interior of the district, particularly to small cities
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Phillimore, Jennifer Ann. "Heterogeneity, choice and social agency : an ethnographic study of women working in Herefordshire's tourist attraction industry." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369154.
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Ye, Jin. "Vers un nouveau "modèle touristique chinois" ? : l'exemple du district de Songyang (province du Zhejiang en Chine)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Amiens, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022AMIE0094.
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La poussée touristique chinoise s'est faite, et se fait encore, sur un modèle "quantitatif" aujourd'hui. Pourtant, des choses changent, en particulier dans les espaces ruraux et montagneux, avec l'accent mis par l'État chinois sur la revitalisation rurale et le nombre croissant d'une nouvelle génération de touristes de la classe moyenne. Cette thèse propose de s'interroger si un nouveau "modèle touristique chinois" émerge, à partir du district de Songyang, un territoire rural et montagneux en retard de développement situé dans la province parmi les plus riches et les plus innovantes. Il s'agit d'un modèle de mise en tourisme "qualitatif", éloignant de l'ancienne logique standardisée autour du tourisme qualifié comme "quantitative" ou "de masse". Ce travail met l'accent tout d'abord sur le rôle fondamental de l'État central et sur la construction de goûts "stéréotypés" dans l'esthétique paysagère des touristes afin de souligner le contexte politique, culturel et esthétique positif dans le développement du tourisme rural. Les rôles des investisseurs extérieurs et des architectes, en tant que porteurs de valeurs et de regards urbains, dans la mise en tourisme et dans la construction de l'image territoriale, ont été abordés. Néanmoins, nous remettons en question des hébergements ruraux de qualité et des architectures comme révélateurs du territoire et comme leviers du développement. Notre travail analyse ensuite les pratiques touristiques des touristes chinois dans la campagne. Nous nous interrogeons aussi sur la "ruralité" et l'"authenticité" recherchées par les touristes. L'intérêt de ce travail est également de montrer la valeur exemplaire et expérimentale du modèle de Songyang à d'autres zones rurales confrontées à des difficultés de développementTourism development in China has been, and still is, based on a "quantitative" model. However, the situation is changing, especially in rural and mountainous areas, with the Chinese government's focus on rural revitalization and the increasing number of new generations of middle-class tourists. This thesis proposes to examine whether a new "Chinese tourism model" is emerging, using Songyang County as the subject of this study, a rural and mountainous region located in one of the wealthiest and most innovative provinces. This is a "qualitative" model of tourism development, moving away from the "quantitative" or "mass" logic of standardization that has been described around Chinese tourism in the past. This thesis begins by emphasizing the fundamental role of the Chinese national government and analyzes the construction of "stereotypical" tastes in tourists' landscape aesthetics to highlight the active political, cultural and aesthetic context in rural tourism development. The role of outsider urban investors and architects, as bearers of urban values and perspectives, in tourism and territorial image building has been discussed. However, we question the role of high quality rural accommodation and architecture as levers for the revelation and development of the territory. This thesis then analyzes the tourism practices of Chinese tourists in the countryside. We also question the "rusticity" and "authenticity" sought by tourists. This work is also relevant to show the exemplary and experimental value of the Songyang model to other rural areas facing development difficulties
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Bloms, James L. "Rural Midwest community case studies in retail tourism identifying community appeal and satisfying visitor needs /." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999bloms.pdf.
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Ollenburg, Claudia, and n/a. "Farm Tourism in Australia: A Family Business and Rural Studies Perspective." Griffith University. School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070717.165555.
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This research examines the Australian farm tourism sector within both family business and rural studies research paradigms. It analyses which farmers in Australia establish farm tourism businesses, and why. It extends previous research on farm tourism both in breadth, by covering an entire continent; and in depth, using qualitative approaches to determine the internal and external triggers for individual decisions, as well as quantitative approaches to establish the operational structure of the sector and the overall motivations of its operators. There were three separate stages to this study, with an increasingly detailed focus. In the first, a national database of farm tourism operators was constructed from publicly available sources. In the second phase, a 92 item questionnaire was mailed to every operator, with a response rate just below 50%. In the third phase, detailed interviews were conducted with 43 farm tourism operators either on site or by telephone. There are over 650 working farms which offer farm based tourism products in Australia. A few are large, remote and luxurious, but the majority are small, family priced and close to major population centres. There are around 14,000 beds, with mean occupancy rate 35%, and total annual turnover AUS$115 million. Only 0.2% of Australian farmers have taken up tourism, as compared with 10-20% in some European countries. There are four major groups of farm tourism operators in Australia: full time farms, part time farms, retirement farms and lifestyle farms. There are statistically significant differences between these groups in the make up of their income streams, and in their motivations and family structures. Australian farm tourism operators attach slightly more significance to social than financial gains. Particular groups of operators, however, do indeed rely on farm tourism as a key income stream. For lifestyle operators, the farm component is principally a lifestyle luxury and a tourism attraction, with tourism generating the principal income. For retirement farmers, farming is no longer at a commercially viable scale, and tourism provides the cashflow to keep the operators on their farm property during semi retirement. For part time operators, tourism provides an income stream in addition and, where possible, in preference to off farm employment, for farm families having difficulty making ends meet. For full time farmers, tourism is not seen as a long term important income source, but as a diversification option which enabled them to survive external economic shocks caused by changes in commodity prices or government policies. Whereas an income from farm tourism seems to have been an important stopgap or supplement which allows the operators to maintain their farms and farming lifestyles, it does not necessarily generate sufficient income to support two generations on the same property. At least to date, therefore, it appears that farm tourism cannot be relied upon routinely as a new lifeline for rural communities in Australia. It does indeed have a role to play, but the role may be different in different parts of the country. In the more remote areas, farm tourism can provide a buffer for an older generation of farming families, helping to maintain stability in rural communities and land tenure. In areas popular with amenity migrants, however, farm tourism may act as an agent of change, part of a package which brings former urban professionals to a rural semi retirement.
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Щербаченко, Вікторія Олексіївна, Виктория Алексеевна Щербаченко, Viktoriia Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko, Людмила Сергіївна Захаркіна, Людмила Сергеевна Захаркина, Liudmyla Serhiivna Zakharkina, Олексій Олександрович Захаркін, et al. "Green tourism as innovative direction of households’ activities in rural areas." Thesis, E3S Web of Conferences, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/82698.
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У статті розглядаються виклики та можливості світової туристичної галузі. Ми розглядаємо зелений (сільський) туризм як інноваційний напрямок діяльності домогосподарств у сільській місцевості. Крім того, розвиток сільського туризму може стати фактором створення позитивного іміджу сільської місцевості і може залучити більше інвестицій. Сільські райони мають багату культурну та природну спадщину у всьому світі. Таким чином, його різноманітність може стати величезним надбанням для тих, хто хоче розвивати сільський туризм. Ми проаналізували туристичний потенціал Сумської області та визначили напрямки його розвитку. Створена туристична карта. Отримані результати можуть бути використані для розробки муніципальних та державних програм, пов'язаних з інфраструктурою туристичних послуг у сільській місцевості.В статье рассматриваются проблемы и возможности мировой туристической индустрии. Мы рассматриваем зеленый (сельский) туризм как инновационное направление деятельности домохозяйств в сельской местности. Кроме того, развитие сельского туризма может быть фактором создания положительного имиджа сельской местности и может привлечь больше инвестиций. Сельские районы обладают богатым культурным и природным наследием по всему миру. Таким образом, его разнообразие может стать огромным преимуществом для тех, кто хочет развивать сельский туризм. Мы проанализировали туристический потенциал Сумской области и определили направления его развития. Создана туристическая карта. Полученные результаты могут быть использованы при разработке муниципальных и государственных программ, связанных с инфраструктурой туристических услуг в сельской местности.
The article deals with the challenges and opportunities of the world tourism industry. We consider green (rural) tourism as an innovative direction of households’ activities in rural areas. Furthermore, the development of rural tourism can be a factor in the creation of a positive rural area image and it may attract more investment. Rural areas have a rich cultural and natural heritage worldwide. Thus, its diversity may become a huge asset for those who want to develop rural tourism. We have analyzed the tourist potential of the Sumy region and defined directions for its development. The touristic map was created. Received results can be used to develop municipal and governmental programs related to touristic services` infrastructure in rural areas.
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Ollenburg, Claudia. "Farm Tourism in Australia: A Family Business and Rural Studies Perspective." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366281.
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This research examines the Australian farm tourism sector within both family business and rural studies research paradigms. It analyses which farmers in Australia establish farm tourism businesses, and why. It extends previous research on farm tourism both in breadth, by covering an entire continent; and in depth, using qualitative approaches to determine the internal and external triggers for individual decisions, as well as quantitative approaches to establish the operational structure of the sector and the overall motivations of its operators. There were three separate stages to this study, with an increasingly detailed focus. In the first, a national database of farm tourism operators was constructed from publicly available sources. In the second phase, a 92 item questionnaire was mailed to every operator, with a response rate just below 50%. In the third phase, detailed interviews were conducted with 43 farm tourism operators either on site or by telephone. There are over 650 working farms which offer farm based tourism products in Australia. A few are large, remote and luxurious, but the majority are small, family priced and close to major population centres. There are around 14,000 beds, with mean occupancy rate 35%, and total annual turnover AUS$115 million. Only 0.2% of Australian farmers have taken up tourism, as compared with 10-20% in some European countries. There are four major groups of farm tourism operators in Australia: full time farms, part time farms, retirement farms and lifestyle farms. There are statistically significant differences between these groups in the make up of their income streams, and in their motivations and family structures. Australian farm tourism operators attach slightly more significance to social than financial gains. Particular groups of operators, however, do indeed rely on farm tourism as a key income stream. For lifestyle operators, the farm component is principally a lifestyle luxury and a tourism attraction, with tourism generating the principal income. For retirement farmers, farming is no longer at a commercially viable scale, and tourism provides the cashflow to keep the operators on their farm property during semi retirement. For part time operators, tourism provides an income stream in addition and, where possible, in preference to off farm employment, for farm families having difficulty making ends meet. For full time farmers, tourism is not seen as a long term important income source, but as a diversification option which enabled them to survive external economic shocks caused by changes in commodity prices or government policies. Whereas an income from farm tourism seems to have been an important stopgap or supplement which allows the operators to maintain their farms and farming lifestyles, it does not necessarily generate sufficient income to support two generations on the same property. At least to date, therefore, it appears that farm tourism cannot be relied upon routinely as a new lifeline for rural communities in Australia. It does indeed have a role to play, but the role may be different in different parts of the country. In the more remote areas, farm tourism can provide a buffer for an older generation of farming families, helping to maintain stability in rural communities and land tenure. In areas popular with amenity migrants, however, farm tourism may act as an agent of change, part of a package which brings former urban professionals to a rural semi retirement.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Barata, Maria Leonor Moura de Oliveira Themudo. "À procura dos sinais contemporâneos na paisagem rural. Projectos de turismo em espaço rural alentejano." Master's thesis, ISA, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3125.
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Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThis dissertation proposes to contextualize some thoughts about recent motives that push people into rural landscape and into finding new ways to intervene in the countryside and how this movement is quite clear in what Alentejo region concerns. Here we try to show an ensemble of events and dynamics, that made society more aware of certain aspects of landscape and development, but also how those aspects help to develop land management politics and tools. Coming out from this awareness emerge new rural development paradigms that help to establish the new bases for rural landscape evolution. Most of the reflections here presented gain a special meaning when associated with a practical perspective, achieved by the evaluation of intervention projects connected with one of the most prominent economic activity nowadays, the tourism. Considering this context three projects were taken in account: Peral Manor Touristic Project, Valadas Manor Touristic Project and Milreu Manor Touristic Project. They try to materialize some of the contemporary imprints in rural landscapes, satisfying the main policies and development guide-lines for Alentejo region, for tourism and also for preservation and valorization goals concerning ecological and cultural values.
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McGehee, Nancy Gard. "Effects of tourism-related cooperatives on community development in Appalachia /." This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06232009-063350/.
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Silveira, Adalgiso Silva. "Turismo nas fazendas imperiais do Vale do Paraíba Fluminense." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27148/tde-18072009-202853/.
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Este estudo realizado com base em fontes primárias e secundárias está embasado no trabalho de campo que consiste em entrevistas e observações in loco. Consiste em analisar as Fazendas Imperiais no Vale do Paraíba Fluminense para a implementação da atividade turística. Trata do elemento histórico e da cultura material como valor capaz de alavancar o turismo, tendo como sustentáculo a história cotidiana da região do Vale do Café, no período da cafeicultura durante o século XIX. Revela resultados abrangentes para a consolidação de um novo pólo turístico regional tendo as fazendas imperiais como fator motivador da destinação.This study done with basis on primary and secondary sources is based on the fieldwork that consists on interviews and observations in loco. It consists on analyzing the Imperial Farms in the Vale do Paraíba in Rio de Janeiro in order for the implementation of tourist activity. It is about the historical element and the material culture with value enough to promote tourism, having as basis the daily life story of the Vale do Café region, in the period of coffee growing during the 19th century. It reveals inclusive results for the consolidation of a new tourist regional pole having the imperial farms as a motivating factor of the destination.
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Fusté, Forné Francesc. "Food tourism in rural areas: the case of cheese in Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398019.
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Food tourism is a type of tourism that over recent years has been achieving a greater interest by academics and tourism professionals, and evidently also as a tourist motivation. The framework of the thesis is based on rural and mountain areas, where food plays an essential role as an identity factor of a society, and a unique landscape that does not happen in the same way anywhere else. Research analyses the integrative linkages between rural activities, local produce, the heritage of a particular place, its landscape, and tourism; also, the role of gastronomy regarding the regional development and the internationalization processes of destinations. Particularly focused on Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site in the Catalan Pyrenees, the thesis also delineates examples from the region of Canterbury (New Zealand) to draw conclusive resultsEl turisme gastronòmic és una tipologia turística que al llarg dels últims anys està tenint un interès creixent tant per part dels acadèmics com per part dels professionals del turisme, i evidentment també com una motivació turística de primer ordre. El marc de la tesi el formen els espais rurals i zones de muntanya, on la gastronomia hi juga un paper essencial com a factor d’identitat de la societat i en un entorn paisatgístic que no es dóna en cap altre lloc. La tesi analitza les sinergies que es creen entre les activitats rurals, els productes locals, el patrimoni d’una destinació, el seu paisatge, i l’activitat turística; a la vegada, s’estudia també el rol de la gastronomia en el desenvolupament regional i el procés d’internacionalització d’una destinació turística. El cas estudiat és la Vall de Boí, Patrimoni de la Humanitat als Pirineus de Catalunya, però també s’utilitzen exemples de la regió de Canterbury (Nova Zelanda) per donar resposta als diferents objectius plantejats