Category FAQs Search : Tourism
Question: Rural Tourism
Answer: Rural tourism has a high potential to stimulate local economic growth and social change because of its complementarity with other economic activities, its contribution to GDP and job creation, and its capacity to promote the dispersal of demand in time (fight seasonality) and along a wider territory.
UNWTO understands Rural Tourism as "a type of tourism activity in which the visitor’s experience is related to a wide range of products generally linked to nature-based activities, agriculture, rural lifestyle / culture, angling and sightseeing.
Rural Tourism activities take place in non-urban (rural) areas with the following characteristics:
i) low population density
ii) landscape and land-use dominated by agriculture and forestry
iii) traditional social structure and lifestyle
(Source: The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), 08 Oct 2021)
Source Link: https://www.unwto.org/rural-tourism