The economic side of agrotourism: business performance and competitive factors

Vogt, Luisa

doi:10.3280/ecag2013-003006

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“…Tourism activities carried out by farms are universally known to provide additional economic support, especially for small family businesses [35], which share the need to diversify activities and increase their income. Everywhere, the blending of agriculture and tourism is considered a successful strategy to diversify farm income, expand marketing and farm brand awareness, and level out seasonal fluctuations [36]. In summary, public funding plays an important role in supporting business diversification and additionally, is a determining factor in development of business ideas [37,38].…”

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Do Rural Policies Impact on Tourism Development in Italy? A Case Study of Agritourism

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This paper investigates how and to what extent European and national policies have financed Italian agritourism. It analyses financial support derived from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (First and Second Pillar) and national and local subsidies. For this purpose, the authors have proposed a comparative analysis between Italian agritourism and farms without tourism activities, by stressing the distribution of public financial supports concerning the 2007–2013 programming period of the European Union (EU) for Rural Development. The empirical analysis is based on the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) dataset. The data were stratified by altimetry zone and farm size. Descriptive statistics and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for each group were used. The main results show how the Second Pillar has mainly supported small and medium-sized farms with tourism activities and located in disadvantaged areas. This study could be useful to policymakers regarding the evaluation of the mission for diversification in agriculture, represented here by the carrying out of tourist activities on farms and the contribution for the retention of small-scale farms in marginal areas.

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Do Rural Policies Impact on Tourism Development in Italy? A Case Study of Agritourism

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“…Reasons that influence farmers' participation in agritourism do not only refer to what are ordinarily called "push factors", such as risk distribution within a wider portfolio of assets, they also include more efficient allocation of production factors (particularly labour) in the presence of high competition for land induced by urbanisation, industrialization and population pressure, which then shortens the supply chain length or reduces transaction costs, increasing the farm's profitability [23][24][25][26].…”

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“…However, agritourism research has been especially focused on its sociological aspects, often underestimating the crucial role of the economic dimension of farm recreation [26]. However, agritourism could also be a tool for increasing a farm's profits by expanding its range of activities and/or better enhancing farm products.…”

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“…Indeed, agritourism is typically adopted by traditional family farms that can be forced to combine several agricultural and non-agricultural resources to improve their incomes [22]. Vogt [26] underlined that considering agritourism as a complementary source of income represents one of the main motivations that lead farmers to adopt this practice.…”

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“…The presence of agritourism has dramatically increased in recent decades throughout the world. The difficulty of achieving sufficient revenue from farming alone has fostered a situation where more farmers are promoting pluriactivity-intended as intra-and extra-farm diversification from the agricultural base [26]-and in this context, agritourism represents one of the most appropriate tools for researching alternative income sources. The lack of data and the heterogeneity that characterises this activity in terms of discipline, organisation, and services supplied does not allow for a statistical outlook of single countries.…”

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Recreational Services Provision and Farm Diversification: A Technical Efficiency Analysis on Italian Agritourism

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Recreational functions are among the most important practices to improve farmers’ income and to promote sustainability in the rural territories. Two crucial issues are the ability to rationally allocate farm resources and the ability to efficiently produce different sorts of food and non-food goods. Possible cost savings due to the co-presence of different activities can generate positive effects in the creation of value by agritourist farmers. This paper aims to investigate technical efficiency related to agritourism and recreational functions in Sardinia. Based on a sample of 37 farms and using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, we aim to estimate the technical efficiency of double attitude processes, such as those that characterise agritourism practices. Our findings suggest that efficiency can improve if technical inputs are adequately used; however, the scale appears to be close enough to optimal. Furthermore, we estimated that the margins for improving the efficiency are larger for recreational services and that technical factors contribute to efficiency with a different magnitude. Furthermore, we estimated whether agricultural and non-agricultural resources are efficiently allocated. To our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts in Europe at using an efficiency analysis in agritourism.

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The future of Alpine pastures – Agricultural or tourism development? Experiences from the German Alps

Wanner

Pröbstl‐Haider

Feilhammer

2021

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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The economic side of agrotourism: business performance and competitive factors

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Do Rural Policies Impact on Tourism Development in Italy? A Case Study of Agritourism

Do Rural Policies Impact on Tourism Development in Italy? A Case Study of Agritourism

Recreational Services Provision and Farm Diversification: A Technical Efficiency Analysis on Italian Agritourism

The future of Alpine pastures – Agricultural or tourism development? Experiences from the German Alps

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