Reference : What is the position of agritourism on the Walloon tourist market?

	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Human geography & demography
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/127617

Title :	What is the position of agritourism on the Walloon tourist market?
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Dubois, Charline [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de géographie > Géographie rurale >]
	Schmitz, Serge [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de géographie > Géographie rurale >]
Publication date :	Jun-2012
Main document title :	Agritourism between embeddedness and internationalization
Editor :	Potocnik, Irma
Audience :	International
Event name :	International smart conference WBI-Slovenia
Event date :	14-16 Juin 2012
Event organizer :	Dejan CIGALE (SI) Assist. Prof. Dr.; Charline DUBOIS (BE) PhDs.; Barbara LAMPIC (SI) Assist. Prof. Dr.; Irma POTOCNIK SLAVIC (SI) Assist. Prof. Dr.; Serge SCHMITZ (BE) Prof. Dr.
Event place (city) :	Medana
Event country :	Slovenia
Keywords :	[en] agritourism ; tourism on farm ; Wallonia ; niche market
Abstract :	[en] Marginal practices composed by diversified services, agritourism remains a complex subject of study in some European rural areas where it is clamed as a smart solution of diversification. Even if the phenomenon is quite weak on the Walloon tourist market, it is important from the point of view of farmers for who agritourism is a mean of supplementary incomes. Based on crossed informations and data coming from surveys of potential tourists carried out in tourist poles, life-histories of local tenants and interviews of privileged witnesses as well as content analysis of promotional folders and websites, the position of agritourism on the Walloon tourist market is analysed. It is showed firstly that agritourism is a niche market, which risk dissociating itself from the first pathway if the links between the farm and the tourism continue to weaken. Most of the time agritourism is complementary to other tourist offers but it can also compete with some other forms of tourism in particular cases. Furthermore the demand influences agritourism development through different images and representations that may go off the agricultural practices than with which farmers need to adapt their activities. Finally, different diversifications are developed according to geographic settings.
Research units :	Laplec
Funders :	AFR-FNR Luxembourg ; WBI-Slovenia
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students ; General public ; Others
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/127617

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