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 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 describes the types of people who would be interested in agritourism. USDA estimated that over 62 million people aged over 16 visited agritourist farms within 1 year. This does not include children aged below 16 years, estimated at 20 million. Data given by the Travel Industry...

This chapter examines the supply and demand and market exchange process of the agritourist market. Apparently no country in the world records detailed statistics for the size of the agritourist market. The value of this market was assessed in some states of the USA. The state of New York has...

This chapter describes a farm generating income from as many as four different sources, i.e. from agritourism, from the direct sale of its products to tourists, from ecological production and from the European Union funds for unfavoured areas. On the other hand, in such countries as New Zealand,...

This book presents the depth of the new wave of agritourism apparent around the world. This book consists of four parts. The first section is an introduction to the economics of agritourism; it introduces the role of organization, management, logistics, safety, marketing, finance, economics and...