Tourism and Agriculture

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is one of the oldest and most basic parts of the global economy, while tourism is one of the newest and most rapidly spreading. In the face of current problems of climate change, rising food prices, poverty and a global financial crisis, linkages between agriculture and tourism may provide the basis for new solutions in many countries. A number of challenges, nevertheless, confront the realization of synergies between tourism and agriculture. Tourism and Agriculture examines regional specific cases at the interface between tourism and agriculture, looking at the impacts of rural restructuring, and new geographies of consumption and production. To meet the need for a more comprehensive appreciation of the relationships and interactions between the tourism and agricultural economic sectors, this book consider the factors that influence the nature of these relationships; and explore avenues for facilitating synergistic relationships between tourism and agriculture. These relationships are examined in thirteen chapters through case studies from eastern and western Europe, Japan and the United States and from the developing countries of the Pacific, the Caribbean and Ghana and Mexico. Themes of diversification, economic development, and emerging new forms of production and consumption, are integrated throughout the entire book. This essential volume, built on original research, generates new insights into the relationships between tourism and agriculture and future economic rural development. Edited by leading researchers and academics in the field, this book will be of value to students, researchers and academics interested in tourism, agriculture and rural development.

Rebecca Maria Torres is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas, Austin. Janet Henshall Momsen is Emerita Professor of Geography at the University of California, Davis. She is also Senior Research Associate in the International Gender Studies Institute and in the Centre for Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Oxford.

1. Introduction Section 1: Tourism, Agriculture and Rural Restructuring 2. Tourism and Agriculture in Hungary: Post-Productivist Transistion or New Functions in Rural Space? 3. The Nexus Between Agriculture and Tourism in Ghana: A Case of Unexploited Development Potential 4. Life Between the Two Milpas: Tourism, Agriculture and Migration in the Yucatan 5. Female Empowerment Through Agriculture in Rural Japan? Section 2: Building Tourism and Agriculture Linkages: Challenges and Potential 6. Sustainability on a Plate: Linking Agriculture and Food in the Fiji Islands Tourism Industry 7. Cracks in the Pavement: Coventional Constraints and Contemporary Solutions for Linking Agriculture and Tourism in the Caribbean 8. Agritourism Linkages in Jamaica: Case Study of the Negril All-Inclusive Hotel Subsector 9. Tourism and Agriculture in Barbados: Changing Relationships Section 3: New Forms of Tourism and Agriculture Production and Consumption 10. Adopting a Sheep in Abruzzo: Agritourism and the Preservation of Transhumance Farming in Central Italy 11. Farm Stay Tourism in California: The Influence of Type of Farming 12. Tourism and Agriculture Viability: Case Studies from the United States and England 13. Visiting Winery Tasting Rooms: Venues for Education, Differentiation and Direct Marketing 14. New Forms of Tourism in Spain: Wine, Gastronomic and Rural Tourism