Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks

Ammirato, Salvatore, Felicetti, Alberto Michele, Della Gala, Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-6850-0931, Frega, Nicola and Volpentesta, Antonio Palmiro (2017) Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks. In: 18th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises PRO-VE 2017, 18-20 Sep 2017, Vicenza (Italy).

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Abstract

The topic of sustainable growth is becoming central in the debate over the rural development policies. Rural communities can completely fulfil the new challenges in the area of sustainability only with the implementation of innovative forms of collaborations among their business networks. In this work, we consider a particular form of business collaboration arising within rural communities, namely Agritourism Rural Network (ARN). In an ARN, a farm, providing agritourism activities, represents a touchpoint between a network of business and organizations in a rural area and tourists interested in enjoying the local territory. With the aim to deeper the extend of the agritourism phenome- non in a rural region and the potential of the related ARNs in being means of sustainable development, we report main results of an empirical survey carried out in 2016 on a sample of 105 agritourism farms all belonging to the same re- gion (Calabria, Italy). Results confirm our intuitions about the importance at farm level of setting agritourism activities and their impact for the ARN related to the farm and for the sustainable development of a local community as a whole.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	This conference paper was published in Camarinha-Matos L., Afsarmanesh H., Fornasiero R. (Eds) Collaboration in a Data-Rich World. PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 506 pp. 564-574. Springer, Cham and it is is available to purchase at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50 The peer reviewed manuscript is available from http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5326
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sustainable development; Agritourism; Collaborative network; Agritourism Rural Network; ICT
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) > G154.9 Travel and State. Tourism H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > Countryside and Community Research Institute
Research Priority Areas:	Applied Business & Technology
Depositing User:	Marco Della Gala
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2018 12:47
Last Modified:	01 Aug 2021 21:42
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5322

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