On the demand for agritourism: a cursory review of methodologies and practice

Abstract

During the last decades agritourism has expanded tremendously worldwide givenvisitors'increased interest to appreciate the life in the countryside and farmers' need to enhance their revenuesfrom different economic activities. Despite such enlarged agritourism development, scant information is available on the state of its demand at both national and international levels.Given such a need, we cursory reviewed the range of econometric methods employed to evaluate the demand of agritourism, summarizing the salient findings in their application. Our assessment shows that current studies provide a limited characterization of the agritourism demand, especially in terms of methods utilized and information compiled. We suggest that a broader set of economic approaches are needed to control for existing bias and model flaws, and to isolate thefeatures and amenitiespulling visitors to agritourism destinations. We also suggest expanding economic studies to fully capture the impact of increased agritourism demand in surrounding communities.

A supply‐side analysis of agritourism: Evidence from farm‐level agriculture census data in Taiwan

“…A plausible reason could be that the demand for agritourism is higher for higher population density areas like cities and suburban areas. Our finding is consistent with Santeramo and Barbieri (), Bernardo et al . (), and McGehee and Kim ().…”

“…We also found that compared to farms located in a rural area, those located in an urban and suburban area are more likely to engage in agritourism. This finding is consistent with Santeramo and Barbieri (), Bernardo et al . () and McGehee and Kim ().…”

“…Agritourism industry has taken roots across various countries around the globe (Liu ; Carpio et al . ; Santeramo ; Santeramo and Morelli ; Santeramo and Barbieri ). To this end, several studies have investigated the supply side of agritourism as it relates to: (i) motivations, such as income, farm diversification, rural development, and attributes of farm owners, such as operator age, and farm size (Barbieri ; LaPan and Barbieri ; Ammirato and Felicetti ); and (ii) agritourism performance and environmental performances (Pulina et al .…”

“…One strand of literature addresses the demand of agritourism (Busby and Rendle ; Carpio et al . ; Ohe and Ciani ; Santeramo ; Santeramo and Barbieri ). These studies found that farms in rural areas were receptive of consumer demand for agritourism.…”

An integrated demand and supply conceptual framework: Investigating agritourism services

“…So far, research on agritourism has mainly focused on demand and supply analyzed as separate components. According to Santeramo and Barbieri (), further research is needed to investigate the characteristics of demand while controlling for different types of settings, motivations, and tourism flows (e.g., local and international tourists). So far, only a few studies have analyzed the demand characteristics of agritourism (e.g., Carpio, Wohlgenant, & Boonsaeng, ; Gao, Barbieri, & Valdivia, ; Melstrom & Murphy, ; Ohe & Ciani, ; Santeramo & Morelli, , Santeramo, ; Santeramo & Morelli, ), whereas the majority of the studies have focused on the supply side, and in particular on the characteristics of agritourism firms (Ammirato & Felicetti, , ; Barbieri, ; Barbieri, Mahoney, & Butler, ), motivations of providers (Barbieri, ; LaPan & Barbieri, ), and agritourism performance (Barbieri & Mshenga, ; Mastronardi, Giaccio, Giannelli, & Scardera, ; Pulina, Dettori, & Paba, ).…”