Rural tourism as tool for the socio-economic development for rural areas after-Covid 19 Agro- cooperativism in the rural Catalonia"

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Gestió de Destinacions Turístiques

Title in different languages: Rural tourism as tool for the socio-economic development for rural areas after-Covid 19

Abstract: In the last decade, rural tourism has become one of the largest sources of income for Spanish rural areas (Albaladejo I.P 2003), which has experienced a constant increase in tourism presence in the last decades, as shown in the statical data. This work aims to problematize the rural tourism boost produced by the new scenario that the global sanitary and economic crisis has opened since 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a massive threat to the worldwide tourism industry. Tourist stakeholders, starting with the public authorities, face the challenge of reactivating tourism, avoiding a return to the pre-Covid tourism model, which seems the most likely outcome. The ideal situation would instead be planning an alternative tourism model that considers a more sustainable development. It can be possible by proposing tourism degrowth for the massive tourist destinations, as the Costa Brava in Catalonia, in favor of a redistribution of the tourism flows within the rural areas thanks to new experiential tourist products design.

Subject: Turisme

Academic year: 2020-2021

Language: en

Work's public defense date: 2021-09-16

Subject areas: Tourism and leisure

Student: Balestracci, Giulia

Department: Geografia

Creation date in repository: 2021-09-22

TFM credits: 12

Keywords: Rural tourism, sustainable development, LEADER, NEXTGeneration, post-Covid-19

Title in original language: Rural tourism as tool for the socio-economic development for rural areas after-Covid 19

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Project director: Russo, Paolo Antonio