Agritourism in multifunctional development of rural areas

Zawadka, Jan (2014) Agritourism in multifunctional development of rural areas. In: Challenges for the Agricultural Sector in Central and Eastern Europe. Agroinform Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 85-96. ISBN 978-963-502-974-7

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Abstract

After the change of the political system and the transformation of the economy, which depended on abandoning the planned economy, in Poland emerged features that shown agriculture and rural areas maladjustment to the new state model and a market economy that was being implemented. By the end of the 1980s, the main features of agriculture and rural areas were resulting from development model realised over the years, whose main objective was the agricultural production. The new reality disclosed low economic efficiency of many farms and the necessity to reorient the concept of developing regions with monofunctional agricultural character to the concept of differentiating their economies. A key problem connected with ensuring rural population improvement of the standard of living is developing non-agricultural functions in rural areas. The generally unprofitable agricultural production must be supplemented, or even replaced by other non-agricultural functions, e.g. tourism, handicrafts or agri-food processing. The article presents the issue of multifunctional development of rural areas and agriculture in Poland. One of the elements of this development is tourism in rural areas, and the related agritourism, which is treated as an important branch of the non-agricultural activities, not only on a local, but also on a national scale. The paper shows the most important economic and non-economic benefits associated with the development of agritourism, as well as the threats arising from it for the rural areas

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