Talk:Rural tourism

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rural tourism encompasses rural society, cultural beliefs in their original form and different terminology like agri-tourism, green tourism and farm tourism are used interchangeably to mean rural tourism. rural tourism with unique cultural values,heritage and scenic beauty,system and livelihood incoming production and distribution patterns,rural customary festivals and fairs,folk media including music, dances,art and architecture,,ethnic cuisine and hospitality, handcraft and hand looms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.248.46.34 (talk) 06:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Definition of Rural Tourism : Any form of tourism that showcases the rural life, art, culture and heritage at rural  locations, thereby benefiting the local community economically and socially as well as enabling interaction between the tourists and the locals for a more enriching tourism experience can be termed as rural tourism. Rural tourism is essentially an activity which takes place in the countryside. It is multi-faceted and may entail farm/agricultural tourism, cultural tourism, nature tourism, adventure tourism, and eco-tourism. As against conventional tourism, rural tourism has certain typical characteristics like; it is experience oriented, the locations are sparsely populated, it is predominantly in natural environment, it meshes with seasonality and local events and is based on preservation of culture, heritage and traditions.

Scope and Possibilities: Tourism growth potential can be harnessed as a strategy for Rural Development. The development of a strong platform around the concept of Rural Tourism is definitely useful for a country like India, where almost 74% of the population resides in its 7 million villages. Across the world the trends of industrialization and development have had an urban centric approach. Alongside, the stresses of Urban lifestyles have led to a “counterurbanization” syndrome. This has led to growing interest in the rural areas. At the same time this trend of urbanization has led to falling income levels, lesser job opportunities in the total areas leading to an urbanization syndrome in the rural areas. Rural Tourism is one of the few activities which can provide a solution to these problems. Besides, there are other factors which are shifting the trend towards rural tourism like increasing levels of awareness, growing interest in heritage and culture and improved accessibility, and environmental consciousness. In the developed countries, this has resulted in a new style of tourism of visiting village settings to experience and live a relaxed and healthy lifestyle. This concept has taken the shape of a formal kind of Rural Tourism.

Importance in Europe
In Europe, specially in south Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy) it has become a really important manner of tourism, so this article should be given much more importance than it has nowadays. I'm gonna try to remake it, but my native language is not English, so if anyone could help me with the errors I will commit I really appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbanista77 (talk • contribs) 10:58, 29 August 2011 (UTC)