Staying on farms: An Ideological Background

Abstract Rural tourism shows a structure different from agriculture, forestry, and fishery: it is expanding, labor intensive, generates influx of money, and maintains the service base in the region. Farm tourism, as an example has ideological roots in the romanticism of nature and social tourism. It plays a greater role in this conceptualization than its character signifies, because of a set of development engines driving it. Further, it acts as an indicator of what is happening on the delicate ground where tourists and the industry meet. This paper looks for the driving forces of farm tourism, distinguishing it from rural tourism.