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What is the position of agritourism on the Walloon tourist market?
Dubois, Charline; Schmitz, Serge
2012In Potocnik, Irma (Ed.) Agritourism between embeddedness and internationalization
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Keywords :
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 center :
Laplec, ULiège
Lepur, ULiège
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Dubois, Charline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Géographie rurale
Schmitz, Serge  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Géographie rurale
Language :
English
Title :
What is the position of agritourism on the Walloon tourist market?
Publication date :
June 2012
Event name :
International smart conference WBI-Slovenia
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 :
Medana, Slovenia
Event date :
14-16 Juin 2012
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Agritourism between embeddedness and internationalization
Editor :
Potocnik, Irma
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Name of the research project :
AFR - Aides à la Formation-Recherche
Funders :
FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche [LU]
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