 Tourism on-farm or off-farm: two different activities for a single work?Caroline Tafani ()
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: In Corsica, a touristic island located at the heart of the Mediterranean basin, agriculture faces both the tourism urbanization and the tourists demand for local agri-food products and agrotourism services. Currently, tourism is the main economic sector of the island and the major source of employment. Nevertheless, agriculture is still the activity the most visible in the surrounding landscapes as the pretty 90% of the area is covered by agricultural and green lands. And, if tourism is clearly a disturbing activity for agricultural organizations (land pressures, competition for labour), it is at the same time an opportunity for farmers to diversify their activities, to complete or increase their incomes and to contribute to the local development. From that point of view, tourism on farms, agrotourism or, more generally, rural tourism participates to the agricultural development not only because it creates wealth and employees, but also as it contributes to the transmission of the local Heritage. But, not every farmers wants to, or can involve in the tourism services' furniture. Indeed, as tourism is another job and as it often requires another way to practice agriculture in these special cases, agrotourism is also a specific job that can be seen different from tourism on farms and from rural tourism too. So, what we want to discuss here is how tourism and agriculture combines together in these different models taking as an example the case-study of agrotourism in Corsica. Considering the several degrees of poly-activity implemented by the Corsican agrotourism farmers, we draw a typology of them from the most intricate combination of both activities on farms to the less one. So, tourism on farm is not the same product as rural tourism, which rather looks like tourism off-farms and it may be officially recognised like this as soon as the quality of the tourists destination's image is at stake. Keywords: agrotourism; diversification; work organisation; quality management (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in 2nd International Symposium on Work in Agriculture (ISWA 2021) "Thinking the future of work in agriculture", ISWA, Mar 2021, Clermont-Ferrand, France Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04215707 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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