| By: |
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano;
Barbieri, Carla |
| Abstract: |
During the last decades agritourism has expanded tremendously worldwide given
visitors’ increased interest to appreciate the life in the countryside and
farmers’ need to enhance their revenues from 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 the features and amenities pulling visitors to agritourism
destinations. We also suggest expanding economic studies to fully capture the
impact of increased agritourism demand in surrounding communities. |
| Keywords: |
Agritourism, Demand, Stated Preference, Revealed Preference, Tourism Flow |
| JEL: |
L83 P25 Q1 Q10 Z0 |
| Date: |
2015–11–01 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:68177&r=tur |