This chapter gives a broad macro- and microeconomic background to the challenge of multifunctional development. The chapter also discusses agritourism and rural tourism within the concept of multifunctional rural development, with special attention given to the conditions that influence or may...

This chapter discusses information sources that facilitate agritourism i.e. maps, guidebooks, flyers and the internet. The chapter also presents offices dealing with professional agritourism and the problem of the souvenir industry.

This chapter discusses the concept of agritourism. Agritourism is a style of holiday that is normally spent on farms. The term agritourism is understood differently by tourists and providers of agritourist services. For a tourist, agritourism means familiarizing oneself with agricultural production ...

This chapter discusses the economic and social impact of agritourism. The economic and social importance of agritourism can be considered in many aspects, e.g. the macroeconomic aspect, the regional economic aspect and the microeconomic aspect. The primary phenomena that affect the development of...

This chapter discusses agritourist space. Agritourist space refers to the area of a farm providing agritourist services, its natural landscape and the landscape of the expanse that is the result of human activity. It includes the architecture, the farm landscape and the scenery formed by production ...

This chapter discusses agritourism entities/agritourism ventures. Agritourism entities participate in the agritourism process, which comprises planning, production, marketing, sales and consumption of agritourism products and services. The entities functioning in agritourism can be divided into...

This chapter discusses the regulations of agritourism activities. Various taxes, licences, codes and fees have to be carefully examined, and in some cases even permits are required. It depends on the location of the enterprise (country or even the region), attractions offered, whether employees are ...

This chapter discusses how an agritourist farm is organized. The agritourist farm derives from the agricultural farm with business operations extended to include agritourist activity. The most frequent reason why an agricultural farm starts agritourist business is to increase income. A farm that...

This chapter discusses techniques that explain and analyse selected economic problems of agritourist enterprises, namely: resources and factors in agritourism; analysis of outlays and effects; listing categories of outlays, income and costs; costing in case of production costs of agritourist...

This chapter discusses the integration or connecting of business entities for the realization of common goals. Complete integration takes place when the cooperating entities merge and form a new entity. Complete integration may also consist in the fact that the stronger entity incorporates the...