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Rural Tourism
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Essay
Rural travel allows visitors access to people and places beyond city environments. Options include hiking and biking, visiting community museums, savoring local food and buying locally produced [|crafts].

TIP: Rural tourism, like a rural environment, is best enjoyed slowly.

Details in multiple languages Transportation tips including public transportation Option to eat home-cooked meals (see kitchen hopping) Presence on the social web including Facebook, Flickr, Google+, TripAdvisor, Twitter and YouTube Calendar of upcoming events (preferably over the next 12 months)
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Flickr
[|Rural tourism] (100+ members, 600+ images) is a popular group on [|Flickr]. The focus of this group is responsible travel in rural areas around the world.

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Facebook
Responsible Rural Tourism https://www.facebook.com/groups/234449996664888 The Responsible Rural Tourism Network (R2TN) is a group of leadi ng researchers from Malaysia and across the region in the field of sustainable and responsible tourism, who has been commissioned to carry out a RM9 million (US$3mil) programme funded under the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education’s Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS). This national project is scheduled to complete in 5 years (2011-2016). This collaborative interdisciplinary and multi-institutional study consists of a variety of stakeholders - government, universities, NGOs, and tourism professionals, who will play a holistic role in sustaining the fragile rural tourism industry of Malaysia. The programme is led by Taylor’s University, Malaysia with three other project leaders within the programme, namely Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Other associate researchers working on this project come from Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), International Islamic University (IIU), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). The project will also work closely with Wild Asia, a social enterprise group specializing in responsible tourism, Ministry of Tourism, Malaysia and other foreign universities namely University of Surrey, Washington State University and Rikkyo University, Japan. The programme is expected to graduate about 15 doctoral students, 80 high impact indexed publications and most importantly a working application (tourism barometer) that can transform the fragile rural tourism industry of Malaysia to become responsible and sustainable. The successful model will be replicated for nations across South East Asia.

Twitter
[|@RuralTourismNZ] [|@RTNKENYA] [|@EscapesRurales]

Recommended Listening
[|Bush Telegraph - ABC]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Rural Information Center: Promoting Tourism] [|Are You a Rural Tourism Destination?] [|ECOCLUB Interview with Andrew Hammerman and Michelle Kirby] [|Travel can help mend a fractured world - Rick Steves] [|Rural Tourism Marketing] [|Rural Tourism: Myths and Realities]

Wiki
ruralroundup

Blogs
http://areadeturismorural.wordpress.com http://ruraltourismproject.wordpress.com

According to [|Trav Info India]: "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 as rural tourism. Rural tourism is essentially any activity which 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."

Trav Info India explains that it focuses on rural tourism "since India's heart lies in its villages. Every rural community is steeped in folklore and indigenous craft. The traditional way of life will greatly enrich the visitor's experience. A visitor experience based on Rural Tourism is specially relevant for India where almost 74% of the population resides in its 7 million villages.

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