FARM TOURISM AND RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDENTIFYING MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Chris Phelan () and Claudia Sima ()
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Chris Phelan: Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK
Claudia Sima: University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 199-211

Abstract: The work attempts to disseminate and encourage a clearer understanding of farm tourism and explore the complexity of rural and farm tourism entrepreneurship. The aim of the paper is to identify the managerial and entrepreneurial skills and competencies required of farmers to diversify their activity and develop successful farm tourism. The research uses a qualitative methodology under the form of Q Methodology. This is a sorting technique designed for the systematic study of subjectivity, opinions, and views. It makes use of a research instrument developed from the existing literature on entrepreneurial skills and competences. This was administered to farm tourism entrepreneurs in the North West of England. The article concludes by discussing key entrepreneurial skills and competencies and viewing the farmer as a rural entrepreneur within the broad landscape of farming identity. These insights may help better inform governmental rural business support, education, and consultancy services, and help policy development.

Keywords: farm tourism; entrepreneurship; skills; North West England (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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