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Agritourism: Community-Based Tourism

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This is one of the main reasons why agritourism is being touted as one of the symbols of a real sustainable form of tourism.

2.3. Community Support Community-based tourism and other forms of community development can only be achieved if there is real and actual participation from the members of community. Community awareness is one of the important precursors of community development (Richards & Hall, 2003). A higher level of community awareness leads to a scenario wherein people are more concerned and participative (and therefore aware) of the events in the community—including the establishment of new tourism businesses in the area be they agritourism-related or not. Agritourism is arguably one of the symbols of sustainable tourism. Combining the benefits of sustainable tourism (e.g. more livelihood, jobs, and opportunities for the community members), a higher level of community awareness (participation, and concern) can be achieved (Simpson, 2009). Using the same findings that Simpson (2009) presented, it would be safe to suggest that the lack of community participation (as a result of negative perceptions) in initiatives to promote and develop a tourism niche or sector would lead to laggard growth. A negative perception about …show more content…

According to Pizam (1978), there are social costs to the destination community whenever a new tourism development gets initiated; this was verified by his study involving 1,636 residents of a tourist site in Cape Cod. Numerous other studies have also supported the claim that the social and cultural identity of the community members may also be one of the many negative social effects of tourism development (Andereck & Vogt, 2000; Farahani & Musa, 2008) or in this case agritourism. This may be a cause of negative apprehension for residents. Therefore, the following hypotheses are

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