TY - CHAP
T1 - Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks
AU - Ammirato, Salvatore
AU - Felicetti, Alberto Michele
AU - Della-gala, Marco
AU - Frega, Nicola
AU - Volpentesta, Antonio Palmiro
N1 - © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2017
PY - 2017/8/22
Y1 - 2017/8/22
N2 - 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 phenomenon 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 region (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.
AB - 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 phenomenon 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 region (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.
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Agritourism
KW - Collaborative network
KW - Agritourism rural network
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-3-319-65150-7
VL - 506
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 564
EP - 574
BT - Collaboration in a Data-Rich World
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, L.
A2 - Afsarmanesh, H.
A2 - Fornasiero, R.
PB - Springer
ER -