Why Farm Based Tourism?
The lure of the countryside

Many sources associate farm based tourism or farm tourism with rural tourism since these tourism activities mostly take place on farms in rural areas.

Travel Info India sees farm tourism as an activity within rural tourism:

Rural tourism is “any form of tourism that showcases the rural life, art, culture and heritage at rural locations thereby benefiting the local community economically and socially, as well as enabling interaction between the tourists and the local community for a more enriching tourism experience can be termed rural tourism.

Rural tourism is essentially any activity that takes place in the countryside. It is multi-faceted and may entail farm or agricultural tourism and is experience oriented. The locations are predominantly in natural environments; they mesh with seasonality and local events and are based on preservation of culture, heritage and traditions.”

The writer H. Morris offers us a broad definition of farm tourism “as an accommodation, business or visitor attraction based on a working farm” in his article “The Farm Tourism Market”, Insights, March 2002 quoted in the Farm and Rural Tourism section of the Visit Britain 2004 website.

http://www.tourismtrade.org.uk/Images/Rural%20&%20Farm%20Tourism_tcm12-16804.pdf