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How Does Sustainable Rural Tourism Cause Rural Community Development?

  • Yugang He,
  • Xiaodan Gao,
  • Renhong Wu,
  • Yinhui Wang and
  • Baek-Ryul Choi

7 December 2021

Rural tourism has been developing vigorously, and rural community functions are becoming diversified in China. Therefore, this paper takes China as an example to explore how sustainable rural tourism affects rural community development in the long an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,490 Views
15 Pages

Information Model for Sustainable Rural Development

  • Alena Harbiankova and
  • Lora Gertsberg

30 May 2022

Currently, the sustainable development of rural areas is relevant for various countries, both developed and developing. The improvement of existing approaches for the assessment and management of rural settlement systems is particularly relevant for...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,207 Views
5 Pages

Rural Sustainable Environmental Management

  • Chunjiang An,
  • Mengfan Cai and
  • Christophe Guy

18 August 2020

Rural environmental protection has received increasing attention in recent years. The economic development and population growth of rural areas results in many problems, such as environmental pollution, land degradation, resource depletion, biodivers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,409 Views
23 Pages

14 April 2025

Architectural heritage structures stand out as important local elements in rural tourism activities carried out in rural areas to observe and experience natural and cultural values, local activities, and rural life culture. The protection and reuse o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,070 Views
20 Pages

Rural Digital Innovation Hubs as a Paradigm for Sustainable Business Models in Europe’s Rural Areas

  • Simona Stojanova,
  • Nina Cvar,
  • Jurij Verhovnik,
  • Nataša Božić,
  • Jure Trilar,
  • Andrej Kos and
  • Emilija Stojmenova Duh

7 November 2022

One of the possible solutions of rural development is rural Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs). Rural DIHs represent an efficient way of improving local environments in a more sustainable way, by affecting local businesses, people and local authorities....

  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
19,257 Views
23 Pages

19 September 2020

This investigation reviewed articles associated with sustainable rural tourism found on the Web of Science database over a 10-year span from 2009 to 2019. The 76 articles that were selected for their inclusion of the concept of sustainable rural tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,825 Views
16 Pages

Rural Tourism: Does It Matter for Sustainable Farmers’ Income?

  • Yugang He,
  • Jingnan Wang,
  • Xiaodan Gao,
  • Yinhui Wang and
  • Baek Ryul Choi

18 September 2021

With the continuous promotion of China’s new rural construction, rural tourism is considered to be an important driving force to promote the sustainable development of rural economy. Sustainable farmers’ income is a major part of the sustainable deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
14,157 Views
19 Pages

13 March 2015

The paper analyses potentials, challenges and problems of the rural tourism from the point of view of its impact on sustainable rural development. It explores alternative sources of income for rural people by means of tourism and investigates effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,886 Views
18 Pages

Rural Sustainable Prosperity: Social Enterprise Ecosystems as a Framework for Sustainable Rural Development

  • Allison L. Ricket,
  • G. Jason Jolley,
  • Faith Beale Knutsen and
  • Sarah C. Davis

20 July 2023

The fourth wave of economic development has ushered in social enterprises (SEs) that have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) in rural regions that have not prospered under the economic development strategies of the pa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,777 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2024

Enhancing rural resilience is crucial due to the significant vulnerabilities faced by rural areas, such as weak economic foundations, scarce resources, and deficient infrastructure. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of rural network r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,006 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2021

Rural revitalization to promote sustainable rural development is a key strategy promoted by the Communist Party of China. We conducted a comprehensive policy analysis to explore the development of sustainable rural education for promoting rural revit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,560 Views
24 Pages

Rural resilience is not only a comprehensive reflection of “thriving businesses, pleasant living environments, social etiquette and civility, effective governance, and prosperity”. It is also the unity of resilience in industry, ecology,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,349 Views
29 Pages

18 February 2023

Sustainable development of a region requires sustainability of its rural parts, as a source of supplies and resources for the urbanized regions. The current climate changes, loss of biodiversity, limited resources, depopulation, deterioration of econ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
7,460 Views
19 Pages

20 July 2022

Accurate and quantitative assessments of rural development can offer important information for the formulation of rural development strategies. The purpose of this study was to provide a new perspective on the evaluation of rural sustainable developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,935 Views
32 Pages

Framework for Sustainable Rural Development through Entrepreneurial Initiatives in Emerging Economies

  • Shahjahan Sarfraz Raja,
  • Valliappan Raju,
  • Muhammad Husnain,
  • Sania Sarfraz,
  • Fozia Malik and
  • Shahnawaz Sarfraz Raja

22 September 2022

Sustainable rural development and higher income levels of a rural community can be achieved through indigenously owned resource-based corporations. The study aims to evolve the new economic model for the sustainable socio-economic development of rura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,143 Views
14 Pages

13 September 2021

The Uzundere district, which is located in NE Turkey, has attractive rural tourism areas with noticeable potentials and rural tourism development activities. This paper concentrates on sustainability development of rural tourism. Sustainable tourism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,371 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable Rural Electrification: Harnessing a Cosmolocal Wind

  • Katerina Troullaki,
  • Stelios Rozakis,
  • Kostas Latoufis,
  • Chris Giotitsas,
  • Christina Priavolou and
  • Fausto Freire

25 June 2022

In this article, we explore the sustainability potential of an alternative commons-based mode of production called cosmolocalism. Cosmolocal production combines global knowledge production with local physical production. Such a production mode has be...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,367 Views
7 Pages

New Rural Women’s Power: Sustainable Rural Food Preparation Model Inheritance and Business Model

  • Ching-Sung Lee,
  • Yen-Cheng Chen,
  • Pei-Ling Tsui,
  • Cheng-Wei Che and
  • Ming-Chen Chiang

Taiwan’s rural areas are currently facing important food problems and the dilemma of human inheritance. Based on the United Nations’ belief that rural women must be empowered; they are a key force in promoting agricultural and rural devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,964 Views
27 Pages

Sustainable Rural Healthcare Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Serbia

  • Ivan Paunović,
  • Sotiris Apostolopoulos,
  • Ivana Božić Miljković and
  • Miloš Stojanović

29 January 2024

This article deals with the under-researched phenomenon of rural health entrepreneurship and its major characteristics. The purpose of this study is to explicate the process of providing health services in rural areas of a developing country and thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,376 Views
20 Pages

Advancing Revolving Funds for the Sustainable Development of Rural Regions

  • Nils-Magnus Wasser,
  • Philipp Ruhstorfer and
  • Björn-Martin Kurzrock

14 October 2020

Financing measures and incentive schemes for (existing and new) building owners can promote the sustainable settlement development of rural regions or municipalities and, in a wider sense, entire countries or cross-border regions. In order to be used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,322 Views
23 Pages

Rural tourism is growing as travelers seek authentic experiences with local traditions, culture, and heritage. This form of tourism plays a key role in the sustainable development of rural areas by effectively utilizing rural resources. To ensure its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,885 Views
33 Pages

In the context of sustainable agricultural development and rural revitalization in China, understanding and addressing psychological poverty traps among rural farm households is crucial. The poverty mindset represents a crucial factor affecting rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
978 Views
25 Pages

12 August 2025

Improving agricultural eco-efficiency (AEE) plays a critical role in fulfilling agriculture sustainable development goals (SDGs). China’s agriculture-led Rural Industrial Integration (RII) seeks to synergize rural industrialization with agricul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,278 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2018

Peru has historically been among the Latin-American countries with a low rural electrification rate. Aiming to improve this situation, the country conducted several electrification efforts in the last few decades that included off-grid photovoltaic (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,352 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Mobility and the Institutional Lock-In: The Example of Rural France

  • Aurore Flipo,
  • Madeleine Sallustio,
  • Nathalie Ortar and
  • Nicolas Senil

18 February 2021

Sustainable mobility issues in rural areas, compared with urban mobility issues, have so far been poorly covered in the French and European public debate. However, local mobility issues are determining factors in territorial inequalities, regional de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,421 Views
14 Pages

Rural Road Assessment Method for Sustainable Territorial Development

  • Leonardo Sierra-Varela,
  • Álvaro Filun-Santana,
  • Felipe Araya,
  • Noé Villegas-Flores and
  • Aner Martinez-Soto

27 November 2024

In Latin America, initiatives have been advocated for developing rural roads that facilitate optimal conditions free from dust, mud, and noise. The criteria for assessing public investment do not align with the requirements of rural infrastructure. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,766 Views
20 Pages

18 May 2023

Increasing urbanization in China threatens the sustainable rural development of villages and towns. The siphoning effect of cities on the surrounding rural areas is increasing, resulting in the more severe problem of a “rural disease” and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,204 Views
25 Pages

Thresholds for Rural Public and Ecosystem Services: Integration into Rural Green Space Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development

  • Huiya Yang,
  • Jiahui Zou,
  • Chongxiao Wang,
  • Renzhi Wu,
  • Maroof Ali,
  • Zhongde Huang,
  • Hongchao Jiang,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Yang Bai

8 January 2025

Rural landscapes are experiencing ecosystem degradation due to urbanization and rapid suburban expansion. Ecosystem services derived from natural resources and essential public services facilitated by social capital collectively address the growingly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,631 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2024

Rural tourism is a vital component of rural development in countries like Indonesia, leveraging the natural beauty, scenic landscapes, cultural heritage, and unique rural lifestyle to drive progress. Water-based tourism, which makes use of reservoirs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,079 Views
23 Pages

18 July 2025

This study employs system theory and dynamic modeling to investigate how rural homestead rights confirmation influences multidimensional urban–rural integration. Through constructing a system dynamics model incorporating environmental, economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,535 Views
38 Pages

Rural Tourism: A Factor of Sustainable Development for the Traditional Rural Area of Bucovina, Romania

  • Cristina Simeanu,
  • Vasile-Cosmin Andronachi,
  • Alexandru Usturoi,
  • Mădălina Alexandra Davidescu,
  • Olimpia-Smaranda Mintaș,
  • Gabriel-Vasile Hoha and
  • Daniel Simeanu

16 April 2025

This paper explores an important issue, namely rural tourism, by analyzing the supply and demand of tourism in three rural regions (Gura Humorului, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, and Dorna) in Bucovina, Suceava County, as an alternative economic develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,648 Views
24 Pages

A Sustainable Approach to Tourism Development in Rural Areas: The Example of Poland

  • Krzysztof Widawski,
  • Alicja Krzemińska,
  • Anna Zaręba and
  • Anna Dzikowska

20 October 2023

The research presented in this article concerns the issue of rural tourism, which is associated with significant economic and landscape changes in the countryside. It is important that tourist development in these areas be subject to the principles o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,255 Views
19 Pages

1 February 2023

Managing sustainable rural tourism requires a strategic transformation adapted to local conditions, the complexity of rural institutions, and the dynamics of future changes. In addition, it must be inclusive. This paper presents transformation pathwa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,383 Views
13 Pages

6 November 2019

Government inspections are a typical approach that the Chinese government adopts in executing its policy agenda and propagating its ideological ideals. However, top-down administrative imperatives as such tend to be consuming in resources and less ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
118 Citations
18,411 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Tourism on Sustainable Development of Rural Areas: Evidence from Romania

  • Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu,
  • Oana Mihaela Stoleriu,
  • Alina Munteanu and
  • Corneliu Iațu

1 October 2018

Rural tourism has been seen during the last decades as a means for economic development of sensitive localities, especially in rural areas. However, little research has been conducted on the sustainability of the development induced by tourism activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,115 Views
28 Pages

11 February 2020

Urban and rural areas are the cradles of human development and civilization as all practical progress and feasible products have emerged from these places. Having a clear understanding of the sustainability of these areas, especially the progress of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,836 Views
14 Pages

The Study of Sustainable Rural Development in Taiwan—A Perspective of Causality Relationship

  • Chun-Chu Liu,
  • Chin-Tarn Lee,
  • Yu-Feng Guo,
  • Kon-Ning Chiu and
  • Tse-Yu Wang

10 February 2022

From the perspective of sustainable development and based on literature review, this paper introduces modified Delphi and Decision Making and Trial Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to explore the critical factors of sustainable development in rural ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,011 Views
19 Pages

Permaculture and Downshifting-Sources of Sustainable Tourism Development in Rural Areas

  • Gheorghe Epuran,
  • Bianca Tescașiu,
  • Alina-Simona Tecău,
  • Ioana-Simona Ivasciuc and
  • Adina-Nicoleta Candrea

29 December 2020

The purpose of this research is to find if the stakeholders involved in rural tourism (primary producers of ecological goods, tourism service providers, and tourists, as carriers of demand for tangible products and ecological services) are concerned...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,924 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2019

Participative planning approaches are vital to sustainable development in rural areas. However, stakeholder involvement also faces many barriers. In this Danube region case study, barriers to stakeholder involvement across eight rural regions are inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,697 Views
19 Pages

10 January 2025

A change in the understanding of rural policy took place in the 1980s when there was a transition from a sectoral to a territorial perception of rural areas. Rural areas are no longer identified only with agriculture. There has been a recent decentra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,074 Views
18 Pages

Geographic Information Systems and the Sustainable Development of Rural Areas

  • Krystyna Kurowska,
  • Renata Marks-Bielska,
  • Stanisław Bielski,
  • Audrius Aleknavičius and
  • Cezary Kowalczyk

23 December 2020

Sustainable development is socioeconomic growth that integrates political, economic, and social measures alongside environmental protection to meet the needs of communities and citizens without compromising the ability of future generations to meet t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2025

Rural areas around the world are increasingly dealing with energy and environmental challenges. These challenges are particularly acute in developing countries, where persistent reliance on traditional energy sources—such as wood fuel—int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
17,221 Views
24 Pages

Rural Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Current and Emerging Issues from the Sustainable Livelihood Framework

  • Alexander Tabares,
  • Abraham Londoño-Pineda,
  • Jose Alejandro Cano and
  • Rodrigo Gómez-Montoya

Most entrepreneurship studies have an urban focus, and it is studied mainly from the perspective of opportunity exploitation. Rural entrepreneurship presents different characteristics, and it requires analysis from a resource-based view since this ki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,957 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2024

The rapid development of rural tourism has placed significant pressure on the rural environment, and relying solely on the government and market forces is insufficient for effective governance. It is urgent to integrate endogenous rural forces into e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,729 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2021

Educational sustainability development (ESD) is central to our sustainable future. To promote inclusive and equitable quality education under the backdrop of sustainable developmental goals (SDGs), we intend to understand how rural students perform i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,621 Views
23 Pages

Assessing Sustainable Rural Development Based on Ecosystem Services Vulnerability

  • Pascual Fernández Martínez,
  • Mónica de Castro-Pardo,
  • Víctor Martín Barroso and
  • João C. Azevedo

9 July 2020

Sustainable Rural Development is essential to maintain active local communities and avoid depopulation and degradation of rural areas. Proper assessment of development in these territories is necessary to improve decision-making and to inform public...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,556 Views
12 Pages

Cognitive Component of the Image of a Rural Tourism Destination as a Sustainable Development Potential

  • Ksenija Leković,
  • Slavica Tomić,
  • Dražen Marić and
  • Nikola V. Ćurčić

12 November 2020

Sustainable tourism should maintain a high level of tourist satisfaction, so identifying components of tourism destination image plays an important role in destination management and marketing. This study aims to explore issues related to the image o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,318 Views
19 Pages

Does Land Transfer Enhance the Sustainable Livelihood of Rural Households? Evidence from China

  • Hui Yang,
  • Zeng Huang,
  • Zhuoying Fu,
  • Jiayou Dai,
  • Yan Yang and
  • Wei Wang

Land transfer and its socio-economic impact are key areas of research interest. Such an examination can help to enhance the sustainability of farming livelihoods, maximise livelihood strategies, and achieve sustainable development. This paper establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,957 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

This study employs various comprehensive research methods to thoroughly analyze the relationship between urban–rural integration and sustainable development, proposing corresponding optimization pathways. First, a literature review method syste...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,278 Views
17 Pages

Telecoupled Sustainable Livelihoods in an Era of Rural–Urban Dynamics: The Case of China

  • Wenjia Peng,
  • Brian E. Robinson,
  • Hua Zheng,
  • Cong Li,
  • Fengchun Wang and
  • Ruonan Li

13 May 2019

Recently, increasingly sophisticated studies have investigated the relationship between agrarian livelihoods and the environment, as well as rural–urban interactions in developing countries. The policies developed to respond to these dynamics c...

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