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Question: Characteristics of Rural Tourism

Answer: The concept of rural tourism has a noble cause. It is another kind of sustainable tourism that exploits resources in rural regions, causes little or no harmful impact, and generates increasing benefits to rural areas in term of rural productivity, employment, improved distribution of wealth, conservation of the rural environment and culture, local people’s involvement, and a suitable way of adapting traditional beliefs and values to modern time.

Some characteristics features of rural tourism are following as:

- Seasonality
- Fragmentation
- External market needed
- Co-operation needed between internal and external market
- Role of women
- Economic role: side income for farmers and other entrepreneurs in the rural area.

Rural tourism could help in boosting the local performing arts and help conserve the local culture and can prevent rural migration. Rural tourism could attract the tourists by providing an excellent glimpse of the village ambiance with local cuisine.

(Source: Tourism Notes - Educational Portal , 11 Oct 2021)

Source Link: https://tourismnotes.com/rural-tourism/