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

Salvatore Ammirato; Alberto Michele Felicetti; Marco Della-gala; Nicola Frega; Antonio Palmiro Volpentesta

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50

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

Salvatore Ammirato
, Alberto Michele Felicetti
, Marco Della-gala
, Nicola Frega
, Antonio Palmiro Volpentesta

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria

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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 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Collaboration in a Data-Rich World
Subtitle of host publication	PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Editors	L. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, R. Fornasiero
Publisher	Springer
Pages	564-574
Number of pages	10
Volume	506
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-65151-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-65150-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50
Publication status	Published - 22 Aug 2017

Publication series

Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	506

Bibliographical note

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Sustainable development
Agritourism
Collaborative network
Agritourism rural network

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Ammirato, S., Felicetti, A. M., Della-gala, M., Frega, N., & Volpentesta, A. P. (2017). Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks. In L. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, & R. Fornasiero (Eds.), Collaboration in a Data-Rich World: PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 506, pp. 564-574). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 506). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50

Ammirato, Salvatore ; Felicetti, Alberto Michele ; Della-gala, Marco et al. / Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks. Collaboration in a Data-Rich World: PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. editor / L. Camarinha-Matos ; H. Afsarmanesh ; R. Fornasiero. Vol. 506 Springer, 2017. pp. 564-574 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks. / Ammirato, Salvatore; Felicetti, Alberto Michele; Della-gala, Marco et al.
Collaboration in a Data-Rich World: PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ed. / L. Camarinha-Matos; H. Afsarmanesh; R. Fornasiero. Vol. 506 Springer, 2017. p. 564-574 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 506).

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Ammirato S, Felicetti AM, Della-gala M, Frega N, Volpentesta AP. Sustainable Development for Rural Areas: A Survey on the Agritourism Rural Networks. In Camarinha-Matos L, Afsarmanesh H, Fornasiero R, editors, Collaboration in a Data-Rich World: PRO-VE 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Vol. 506. Springer. 2017. p. 564-574. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65151-4_50

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

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