Agro-tourism as bundled with rural tourism is a sun rise diligence,
an vibrant employment generator, a noteworthy source of foreign exchange incoming
for our country and state. The important economic as well as domestic activity
that helps local and rural host communities to earn better livelihood. India
has tourism products which is unparallel in its beauty/attraction with a rich
culture and history which is uncompromisingly pursuing the promotion of this tourism
both internationally as well as in the domestic market. Main focusing
population group is the younger mass. As compared to developed countries our
younger people group is leading to greater expenditure tendency on leisure
services like tour and travel. Tourism and hospitality sector’s contribution to
capital investment is drastically requires intensification.
For the promotion of Agro-tourism first we have to understand
the temperament and importance of tourism and its contribution to social and economic
as well as regional development. We have to analyse its strength, lacunas,
opportunities and challenges with its prospective horizon.
It is the main recreational, infotainment or educational and
cultural as well as agricultural purposes, to view or enjoy rural pure
countrymen point of view activities which including farming, historical,
beautification, research, cultural, harvest-your-own activities with
sharing or natural activities and attractions with a
purpose of magnifying the tourism in rural sector with our fundamental agro
activities.
It is a novel concept of earning major or additional revenue
by developing farms in to vacation venture with availability of hospitality
facilities. It this form of tourism it capitalizes the rural rich culture
and beauty as a tourist attraction. It is the ecotourism with a culture flavour.
Mother Nature is great with all its creation. It just likes
an open school without having any doors and brick walls. Today urban children’s
has become limited and encircled in the
closed door school, fast food, cold drinks, internet, so called social media
like Google plus, Face Books, twitter and surfing the internet. They have very
little free time to see the Mother Nature with handy realisation; only to view
some pictures on television screen
or the internet. Agro
tourism is a leisure activity which creates eagerness to involvement with in
the rural landscape and realisation comes with the sense of the people who live
on it. Agro tourism surely can promote regional or social development. It side
by side promotes health tourism, project tourism, cultural tourism, tradition
conservation or adventure tourism.