Contents
Executive Summary 7
Chapter: 1 Introduction 9
1.1. Concept of Agri tourism 9
1.2. Evolution of Agritourism 9
1.3. Why Agritourism 9
1.4. Scope of Agriculture-Tourism 10
1.5. Scope of Agriculture-Tourism in India 11
1.6. Advantages of Agri – Tourism are: 11
1.7. Problem Statement 11
1.8. Research Questions 12
1.9. Objectives 12
1.10. Scope of work 13
Chapter 2: Literature Review 14
2.1 Tourism Development Frameworks and Best Practices: Implications for the Cuba 14
2.2 Tourism and Sustainable Development- A local Authority Perspective 15
2.3 Developing the sustainable tourism benchmarking tool 15
2.4 Sustainable Tourism for development. 16
2.5. Sustainable tourism research: an analysis of papers published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism 16
2.6. Agritourism among Small Farmers in Carolina 17
2.7. Agritourism in United States of America 17
2.8. Agritourism in Italy 18
2.9. Agri- tourism in Sri Lanka 18
2.10. Basic Principles of Agritourism: 19
2.11. Relation between Agriculture and Agriculture tourism 19
Chapter: 3 Research Methodology 20
3.1 Research Design 20
3.2 Research Activities 21
3.3 Business Model 21
3.4 Business model Patterns 23
Chapter: 4 Case Studies 25
4.1 Case Study: Agritourism Centre, Baramati 25
4.2 PALI, Rajasthan 34
4.3 Green Nest- OOTY 37
Chapter: 5 Site Development 39
Chapter 6- Development of Business Model for Agri-tourism Madhya Pradesh 44
6.1 Business Model 44
6.2 Policy recommendations 53
6.3 Conclusion 55
Bibliography 56