Agritourism, Wine Tourism, and Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to Peripherality Through Tourism Niches

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This book delves into the development opportunities for peripheral areas explored through the emerging practices of agritourism, wine tourism, and craft beer tourism. It celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of people living in peri-urban regions. Peripheral areas tend to be far from urban hubs, providing essential services but also typically suffering from marginalisation and remoteness, despite the access to environmental, cultural, and social resources. In this sense, this book investigates the linkages between local agency and tourism in peripheral areas, the role of existing policies, and the evolving bottom-up practices in fostering local development. The basic aim is to disestablish the dichotomies that often emerge when dealing with issues of rural–urban and/or centre–periphery relationships; innovation vs tradition; authenticity vs mise en scène; agency vs inertia; and social, cultural, economic mobility vs immobility; etc. With focused attention on the possible compliance or conflicting strategies of local actors with the existing policies, the book considers how local actors and communities respond to the implications of peripherality in areas often impacted by marginalising processes. Drawing upon case studies from North America and Europe, this book presents this connection as a global phenomenon which will be of interest to community and economic development planners and entrepreneurs. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Local Responses to Peripherality Through Tourism Development Part I: Agritourism 1 Targeting Agritourism to Leverage the Unique Natural Resources Base and Heritage of the Rural West 2 Do Rural Development Policies Enhance Performance of Agritourism Farms in Italy? 3 Rural Development and Sustainable Tourism: A Case for Family Farming in the Alta Murgia National Park (Italy) 4 Challenges of Promoting Tourism to Encourage the Local Development of Fishing Communities Part II: Wine Tourism 5 ‘A Big Fish in A Small Pond’: How Arizona Wine Country was Made 6 Wine Routes and Efficiency of Wineries in Sardinia 7 Wine Tourism and Local Entrepreneurship in Peripheral Areas of Greece: A Regional Analysis 8 The Emergence of Tourism Niches in Rural Areas: The Case of Wine Tourism in Alentejo, Portugal Part III: Craft Beer Tourism 9 Tourism, Authenticity, and Craft Beer: The Case of West Virginia 10 Beercations: A Spatial Analysis of the U.S. Craft Brewery and Tourism Sectors 11 Caring for Community Through Crafted Beer: Perspectives from Northern Sweden 12 From Landscapes to Drinkscapes: Craft Beer, Tourism, and Local Development in the Italian Apennines Conclusion: Tourism in Peripheral Regions: Some Challenges Index