CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania cactus-2011-8 Research Article Q 17, Q 18, Q 13, P 25 Agro-Tourism: A Piece of History at Our Fingertips Bauer Vlad Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania 15 6 2011 3 1 1562011 Copyright © 2011, The Author(s) 2011 The Author(s) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

The agro-tourism is an important component of the overall touristic activity, with multiple benefits for both local communities and environmental protection. This touristic activity plays an important role in getting the young people who left their rural communities to come back to them. The role that the agro-tourism has in this matter is to create jobs and by stimulating the businesses in the rural area, to participate in the development of rural communities. It is a wide spread form of tourism, especially in countries such as France, Germany, Italy. Romania has a great potential for this type of activity and also, a great need for the advantages that this type of tourism brings

 Keywords Ecotourism Agro-tourism Sustainable development Renewable energy

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