Exploring Regional Patterns of Agritourism in the U.S.: What's Driving Clusters of Enterprises?

Agritourism is a consumer-driven innovation that producers are exploring as a means to diversify and grow farm-based revenues. In order to help guide management and policy decisions, we conduct an exploratory spatial data analysis and find that travel infrastructure, region and rurality, characteris...

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Published inAgricultural and resource economics review Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 592 - 609
Main Authors Van Sandt, Anders, Low, Sarah A., Thilmany, Dawn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.12.2018
Subjects
Agricultural economics
Agriculture
Agritourism
Data analysis
Data processing
Decision analysis
Economic conditions
Economic development
Economic models
Economic theory
Economies of scale
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Farms
Innovations
Ranches
Regions
Rural areas
Spatial analysis
Spatial data
Tourism
Travel
United States > US
Colorado
hot spots
tourism
agritourism
spatial analysis
regional development
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Summary:Agritourism is a consumer-driven innovation that producers are exploring as a means to diversify and grow farm-based revenues. In order to help guide management and policy decisions, we conduct an exploratory spatial data analysis and find that travel infrastructure, region and rurality, characteristics of the local economy, and proximity to outdoor attractions are all significantly associated with the probability of a county being an agritourism hot spot. Mapping our primary spatial analysis’ residuals, we further identify counties with unique agritourism market conditions as a starting point to identify best practices that other regions interested in agritourism development might follow.
ISSN:1068-2805
2372-2614
DOI:10.1017/age.2017.36