scholarly journals Sustainable initiatives in marginal rural areas of Serbia: A case study of Dimitrovgrad municipality

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Juan-Pablo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
Organizational Involvement ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Farm Manager

his paper is based on a 2009 case study research on the role and impacts of rural initiatives in Dimitrovgrad, South-eastern Serbia region. This area is of interest, because of local efforts to conserve autochthonous livestock breeds,andtheworkofsmallholdersandindependent professionals involved farming and rural tourism activities. The research used participant visits to initiative places, drawing on farm visits, meetings with stakeholders and analysis of secondary information. The study highlights that local organizations are running without link to initiatives.Although, Serbia country has well structured rural developments programs, those still are harmonising.Thus, throughActor-Network approach is suggested which turn around a farm manager. This may represent to all stakeholders with initiatives (on-farm and non-farm). Besides, local food products issues from initiatives may reconnect providers and consumers, revaluing local food products. However, is necessary the institutional and organizational involvement to encourage the initiatives. Furthermore, to promote touristic places, by an integrated rural tourism approach it may involve all stakeholders to promote local products and issues from initiatives. Indirectly it may create local employs.

scholarly journals Sustainable initiatives in marginal rural areas of Serbia: A case study of dimitrovgrad municipality

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Juan-Pablo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Small Holders ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
Organizational Involvement ◽  
On Farm

This paper is based on a 2009 case study research on the role and impacts of rural initiatives in Dimitrovgrad, South-eastern Serbia region. This area is of interest, because of local efforts to conserve autochthonous livestock breeds, and the work of small holders and independent professionals involved farming and rural tourism activities. The research used participant visits to initiative places, drawing on farm visits, meetings with stakeholders and analysis of secondary information. The study highlights that local organizations are running without link to initiatives.Although, Serbia country has well structured rural developments programs, those still are harmonising.Thus, throughActor-Network approach is suggested which turn around a farm manager. This may represent to all stakeholders within itiatives (on-farm and non-farm). Besides, local food products issues from initiatives may reconnect providers and consumers, revaluing local food products. However, is necessary the institutional and organizational involvement to encourage the initiatives. Furthermore, to promote touristic places, by an integrated rural tourism approach it may involve all stakeholders to promote local products and issues from initiatives. Indirectly it may create local employs.

scholarly journals Why Community-Based Tourism and Rural Tourism in Developing and Developed Nations are Treated Differently? A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5938
Author(s):  
Seweryn Zielinski ◽  
Yoonjeong Jeong ◽  
Seong-il Kim ◽  
Celene B. Milanés
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Developed Nations

Rural community tourism initiatives in developed nations share most positive and negative characteristics with community-based tourism (CBT) initiatives in developing nations. They also share many barriers and conditions for tourism development. What makes them different is the context in which they operate. This paper identifies the main conditions that explain these differences through a review of findings from 103 location-specific case studies and other available literature that provides empirical evidence. The paper also explores the usage of the concepts of CBT and rural tourism. The findings are discussed under seven categories: Definitions, socioeconomic and cultural factors, policy and governance, land ownership, community cohesiveness, assimilation of external stakeholders, and type of visitors. It is argued that it is the developing-/developed-nation context, and not objectively established criteria, which largely dictates authors’ narratives with corresponding takes on tourism development and subsequent recommendations. The paper engages in a discussion about case-study research, its weaknesses and tendencies, providing some recommendations on how to increase the contribution of case studies to knowledge, and calls for more research on externally assisted non-Indigenous community-tourism initiatives in developed nations.

scholarly journals Rural tourism and sustainable rural development opportunities in apulia region (southern italy)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatello Caruso ◽  
Albert-Pol Miró
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Public Aid

The purpose of this study is to investigate the public aid role in to multifunctional farms in developing the rural tourism, and the implementation in non-agricultural activities in the Puglia region. Concretely, by referring to the Rural Development Program 2007/2013, this paper offers an analysis to verify whether there is a solid support for public aid in agrotourism using a farm level data. After a policies and literature review on the role of the Local Action Groups (LAGs) for enhancing economic and sustainable competitiveness of rural areas, we present our case study. Statistical analysis and a tree classification method are carried out.

scholarly journals Rural Tourism as a Development Strategy in Low-Density Areas: Case Study in Northern Extremadura (Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Ana Nieto Masot ◽  
Nerea Ríos Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Geostatistical Techniques ◽  
To Receive

The appearance of new trends and models of tourism consumption has allowed the proliferation of rural tourist facilities in northern Extremadura. This article analyzes the economic, social, and heritage (natural and cultural) variables to relate them to the tourism offer and demand in these areas. The present study used geostatistical techniques such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and their spatial location through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to determine the distribution and degree of incidence of these variables in the territories. The results obtained confirm the existence of imbalances in the tourism sector, which made it possible to determine which tourist territories have implemented the best lines of action to receive visitors, increase economic income, and preserve the population in rural areas with deficiencies in their tourism development.

scholarly journals Necessity of Knowledge Management Practices in TVET Projects in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Devendra Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
International Donor ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Secondary Information

Unemployed youths in Nepal have been receiving vocational training through different projects with the support of international donor communities. Many of these projects simply meet their objectives by fulfilling the quotas of the training participants. There are some TVET projects in Nepal, which do not have priorities in sharing the learning and good practices that were gained during their implementation period due to the lack of Knowledge Management (KM) and disseminating mechanism. The purposes of this article are (i) to disseminate some activities and learnings gained by a Technical Education and Vocational Training (TVET) Project in Nepal which trained nearly 3000 youths from 2012-2016, and (ii) tracing out the importance of the KM practices in every TVET projects. This is a case study research in which secondary information such as the review of the project documents and the reflections of the author as a practitioner-scholar have been used as data. The findings of this research reveal that every TVET project in Nepal has gathered vast sources of knowledge and data. These learning will be beneficial to other forthcoming projects of similar nature. If these data and knowledge are shared among other TEVT project's, then huge financial resources of the state will also be saved. This research article could help us to consider about the importance of KM system in TVET projects.

Challenges facing rural tourism management. A supply-based perspective in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

2020 ◽  
pp. 146735842097061
Author(s):  
Juan Gabriel Tirado Ballesteros ◽  
María Hernández Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Rural Destinations ◽  
Tourism Governance

In rural destinations different programmes coexist to promote tourism which involves many organizations and relationships. The complexity of stakeholder networks in some cases implies that the result of the application of the programmes is not efficient enough. This paper aims to explore some of these challenges regarding destinations located in rural areas taking the case study of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). While much of the literature focuses on pinpointing the factors that have a bearing on destination governance, this research attempts to sort the importance of each factor. Structured qualitative questionnaires have been held with rural tourism suppliers (n = 52). The findings highlight that public-private partnerships, coordination on both horizontal and vertical levels, marketing management skills and integration of local activities are shown as priorities according to supply-based stakeholders’ opinions. A consolidation of a neoliberal approach of tourism governance is necessary, in which local governments assume a secondary role, and management is decentralised through community-based public-private partnerships.

scholarly journals THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TOURISM IN LITHUANIA (CASE STUDY OF EASTERN AUKŠTAITIJA REGION)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimiras GRAŽULIS ◽  
Ramutė NARKŪNIENĖ
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Rural Business

Tourism is one of the activities in rural areas that creates added value, rapidly becomes a part of the global economic and social processes. The authors of the article have analysed the assumptions of successful development of rural tourism in Eastern Aukštaitija region. The article provides the thoughts and reflections of the scientists and researchers in the area of the topic being analysed. What assumptions have determined successful development of rural tourism in the region? The aim of the research is to perform the analysis of development of rural tourism in Eastern Aukštaitija region and to discuss the assumptions of successful development of rural tourism in this region. The objectives of the research include the performance of theoretical analysis of development of rural tourism and the execution of the situation analysis of rural tourism in Eastern Aukštaitija region. The following methods have been applied: the analysis of scientific references, quantitative research – survey and generalization of the questionnaire data. The article includes summarized results of the research that aims at determining the assumptions of successful development of rural tourism in Eastern Aukštaitija region. Successful development of rural tourism depends on external (economical, natural, legal, political, social and technological) and internal (the size of homesteads, the number of services, the experience of the owners of the homesteads in rural business, professional knowledge of the staff and the ability to communicate in a foreign language(s), etc.) factors.

scholarly journals Financial Viability of an On-Farm Processing and Retail Enterprise: A Case Study of Value-Added Agriculture in Rural Kentucky (USA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Clark
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
On Farm

Value-added processing and direct marketing are commonly recommended strategies for increasing income and improving the economic viability of small farms. This case study uses partial budgeting to examine the performance of an on-farm store in Kentucky (USA) over a six-year period (2014–2019), intended for adding value to raw farm ingredients through processing and direct sales to consumers. Three primary product supply chains were aggregated, stored, processed, and sold through the farm store: livestock (meats), grains (flours and meals), and fresh produce (fruits, vegetables, and herbs). In addition, prepared foods were made largely from the farm’s ingredients and sold as ready-to-eat meals. Whole-farm income increased substantially as a result of the farm-store enterprise but the costs of operation exceeded the added income in every year of the study, illustrating the challenges to small farms in achieving a sufficient economy of scale in value-added enterprises. By the final two years of the study period, the enterprise was approaching break-even status. Ready-to-eat items, initially accounting for a small fraction total sales, were the most important product category by the end of the study period. This study highlights the importance of adaptability in the survival and growth of a value-adding enterprise as well as the critical role of subsidies in establishing similar enterprises, particularly in low-income, rural areas.

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