Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated...

The rural economy is more developed and more dynamic if it has a more diverse structure, and if the share of non-agricultural economy is higher. In this context, the agrotourism is a field that is growing in popularity as producers try to diversify their activities and increase profits that can...

Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Perspectives, structure, and conceptual framework -- 2 Features and Challenges of Rural tourism in Japan -- Part 2: Roles of Community-based Rural Tourism -- 3 Roles of Farm Pluriactivity on Multifunctional Agriculture in a Mountainous Rural Community -- 4 Roles of Farm...

"Destination branding and marketing form the backbone of tourism industry growth, but it is increasingly important that the strategies employed consider and promote sustainable solutions. This book provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for branding and marketing for sustainable...

The sustainable rural development of the Dobrudgean rural area requires reaching a balance between the need to preserve the rural economic, ecological and cultural space and the tendency to modernize the rural economic activity and life. The pleading for the promotion of tourism activities in...

Introduction and key concepts / Sophia Davidova, Ashok Mishra and Ken Thomson (Editors) -- EU policies and rural employment / Berkeley Hill -- U.S. policies and rural employment / David Blandford -- Trends in rural employment -- Rural employment trends in the EU / David Harvey -- Special study :...

Romania has a great tourism potential, but unfortunately this potential has not been explored enough. The objective of this paper is to analyze how the European funds were accessed for developing and promoting tourism activities in rural areas at national level. The work is based on the data...

At present, gastronomy is becoming an increasingly stronger motivation and focus of interest in economics, especially in fields related to tourism. At the same time, gastronomic tourism represents one of the most important business opportunities, allowing direct contact between food sector...

We can say that one of the main problems of the Romanian rural area is the high levels of poverty recorded among people in rural areas, where the main activity is agriculture of subsistence and semi-subsistence. Another problem is the state of infrastructure in the area, lack of utilities...

Tulcea County is a special tourist area, with a natural and anthropic touristic potential extremely rich and with real development opportunities in this area. An analysis of the touristic activity in the county can be particularly useful, so this work intends to analyze and present the touristic...

In the present context of increasing competitiveness, inducted by the globalization process, to avoid being marginalized or given up, Italian socio-economic systems need to think out models of differentiated development on a local level and based on the exploitation of territorial resources....