AGRITURISMO

Specialty Definition: Agritourism

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Agritourism is a style of vacation in which hospitality is offered on farms. This may include the opportunity to assist with farming tasks while on vacation. Agritourism is often practiced in wine growing regions.
Dude ranches offer tourists the chance to work on cattle ranches and sometimes include cattle drives.
Agritourism has often been proposed as a means to prop up a local agricultural economy when local producers are no longer economically competitive otherwise.
See also ecotourism, agricultural sustainability
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agritourism."

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