Agritourism is a field that is growing in popularity as producers try to diversify and increase profits. By combining agriculture and tourism, agritourism offers new sources of revenue for farmers
Agritourism defined as a form of commercial enterprise that links agricultural production and/or processing with tourism to attract visitors onto a farm, ranch, or other agricultural business for the purposes of entertaining and/or educating the visitors while generating income for the farm.
Agritourism include the following four factors:
Combines the essential elements of the tourism and agriculture industries;
Attracts public an nature lover to visit agricultural operations;
Designed to increase farm income;
Provides recreation, entertainment, and/or educational experiences to visitors.
Examples of Agritourism
Agritourism operations exist throughout the world. They range from small operations that function on a seasonal basis and offer limited consumer services to large operations that operate throughout the year and provide numerous consumer services. Common examples of agritourism include:
Mango picking patches
Natural Foods
Tractor rides
Visit farms
Horse Riding
demonstration farms
agricultural museums
living history farms
on-farm farmers’ markets
rural bed & breakfasts
Bullock Cart Rides