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Sustainable Rural Tourism and Community Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 10516

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. SoJung Lee

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Guest Editor
Department of Apparel, Event, and Hospitality, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, US
Interests: tourist behaviors in tourism
Prof. Dr. Jichul Jang

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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Hospitality Management in the College of Health and Human Sciences Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, US
Interests: human resource management; people analytics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rural tourism is a crucial element of the tourism industry. Rural tourism can provide travelers with opportunities to appreciate rural environments, authentic experiences, and local lifestyles. According to the World Tourism Organization, rural tourism refers to a wide range of tourism activities in which the visitor’s experience is related to products and services linked to nature-based activities, agriculture, rural lifestyle/culture, angling, and sightseeing. Rural tourism can include various types and forms, including agritourism, farm tourism, nature-based tourism, heritage tourism, and ecotourism. Given the nature and characteristics of rural tourism, sustainability is crucial to rural tourism development and management. The impact of rural tourism on local community development can be discussed in economic, social, and environmental frameworks. In addition, given the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand rural tourism stakeholders’ responses to it and how it has shaped rural tourism and travel behaviors.

We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Sustainable Rural Tourism and Community Development”. We welcome conceptual/empirical research articles, comprehensive reviews, and case studies grounded in scientific research methods and innovative data analyses. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Prof. Dr. SoJung Lee
Prof. Dr. Jichul Jang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable rural tourism planning, development, innovation, and marketing;
  • psychological behaviors of rural tourism stakeholders (e.g., residents, tourists, operators);
  • the impact of COVID-19 on rural tourism and crisis management;
  • economic, social, and environmental impacts of rural tourism on community development;
  • opportunities for and challenges to developing sustainable rural tourism;
  • demographic change in rural tourism and local communities;
  • leadership development and civic engagement;
  • the development of tools for measuring sustainable rural tourism;
  • public health strategies for rural tourism and communities.

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Planning Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in the Context of Thailand: Community, Development, and the Foresight Tools
by Yuthasak Chatkaewnapanon and Timothy J. Lee
Sustainability 2022, 14(12), 7413; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127413 - 17 Jun 2022
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Community-Based Tourism (CBT) has been heavily promoted in Thailand, particularly in rural communities. Tourism transforms the natural and culturally significant attractions of rural communities into consumer products. Tourism development also makes a direct connection between tourism and the community. Therefore, before starting a [...] Read more.
Community-Based Tourism (CBT) has been heavily promoted in Thailand, particularly in rural communities. Tourism transforms the natural and culturally significant attractions of rural communities into consumer products. Tourism development also makes a direct connection between tourism and the community. Therefore, before starting a tourism development project, the interests of local residents need to be investigated and allowances made for their inclusion. This paper introduces foresight tools, community arts, and a community goal-setting technique for putting the authority of future tourism development in the hands of the local community, which is appropriate for tourism development in rural Thailand. This study aims to give the local community useful tools to design their own future development by helping its members develop an understanding of what tourism is and how it impacts their community. A series of inclusive workshops was used to emphasize the need to understand the opportunities and repercussions of tourism as a community, what is at stake, and how important it is to participate in development projects. This methodology was chosen to advance the community members’ ability to generate ideas about what kind of tourism products the community has the potential to develop. Furthermore, it aims to get locals to understand that tourism development is more than just getting that development started. Reaching their future goals requires continuing their tourism activities. Therefore, the two workshops we held advocated community arts and community goal-setting techniques as foresight tools to empower communities to design their future and gave support to those communities to improve the quality of their participation in tourism. Full article
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Factors Related to Profitability of Agritourism in the United States: Results from a National Survey of Operators
by Chadley R. Hollas, Lisa Chase, David Conner, Lori Dickes, R. David Lamie, Claudia Schmidt, Doolarie Singh-Knights and Lindsay Quella
Sustainability 2021, 13(23), 13334; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313334 - 2 Dec 2021
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Agritourism is a growing area of the tourism sector with many positive social and economic benefits for farmers, their communities, and for tourists. While researchers have been studying the phenomenon for several decades, factors that lead to profitable outcomes for agritourism operators are [...] Read more.
Agritourism is a growing area of the tourism sector with many positive social and economic benefits for farmers, their communities, and for tourists. While researchers have been studying the phenomenon for several decades, factors that lead to profitable outcomes for agritourism operators are still not well understood, hindering the effectiveness of agritourism development and the systems of support available to farmers. Using a survey of 1834 farms and ranches open to visitors in the United States, the goal of this study is to identify the factors that influence the profitability of agritourism operations. This study shows that several factors have positive associations with increased agritourism profitability, such as the number of years of experience of the operator, farm scale (acreage and total farm revenue), providing on-farm product sales, and offering events and entertainment. Off-farm product sales and being a female operator have a negative association with profitability in agritourism. We discuss the implications of our findings on agritourism operators, suggest their utility for tourism planning and rural community development professionals, and offer suggestions for future research. Full article
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