The Tourism Studies
Online ISSN : 2189-7530
Print ISSN : 1342-0208
ISSN-L : 1342-0208
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A Study About Realization of Rural Tourism on Exchage between Cities and Farming Communities
Hironori IKEGAMI
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2000 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 11-16

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Rural tourism should be niche product. Rural tourism utilizes various regional resources. Following conditions are necessary so that rural tourism is niche product. Each farming communities must do various service. Each farming community utilizes resources in the maximum in order to produce discriminated service. If production of farming communities specialize tourism service than composite goods, the economic welfare of farming communities raises as a result of activation of exchange between farming communities and cities. And it was shown that the following possibility is high. If a price of tourism service is not so higher than a price of composite goods, the profits of inhabitants of the farming communities which production specializes in tourism service becomes higher than the profits of inhabitants of usual farming communities.
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© 2000 Japan Institute of Tourism Research
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