Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review

Salvatore Ammirato, Alberto Michele Felicetti, Cinzia Raso, Bruno Antonio Pansera and Antonio Violi
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Salvatore Ammirato: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
Alberto Michele Felicetti: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
Cinzia Raso: Decisions Lab, Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, via dell’Università 25, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Bruno Antonio Pansera: Decisions Lab, Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, via dell’Università 25, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Antonio Violi: Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-18

Abstract: Scholars from different perspectives agree that agritourism can be the right tool to balance the needs of tourists with those of rural communities, offering real opportunities for economic and social development, while mitigating undesirable impacts on the environment. This paper aims to provide a holistic outlook of the different perspectives under which scientific literature deals with the topic of agritourism as a means to support the sustainable development of rural areas. To reach this aim, we performed a systematic review of the scientific literature in order to point out the linkages between agritourism and sustainability. We analyzed papers through a text mining solution based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) technique to point out the main topics around which the scientific literature on agritourism and sustainability has grown. Topics are further categorized in themes by means of an agglomerative hierarchical clustering procedure. Results are further analyzed to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the current streams of the literature.

Keywords: sustainable development; Triple Bottom Line; rural development; rural tourism; agriculture; sustainability matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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