Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Vlad  Bauer
Author-Name-First: Vlad 
Author-Name-Last: Bauer
Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
Title: Agro-Tourism: A Piece of History at Our Fingertips
Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul
Abstract: 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
Classification-JEL: Q 17, Q 18, Q 13, P 25
Creation-Date: 2011
Year: 2011
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol3/Bauer.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2011-8