Agri-Tourism Entrepreneurship- A Tool to Rural Development

Abstract

Agri-tourism mqy be seen as a segment within rural tourism. Rural tourism includes additional forms of tourism that exist in a rural setting, including ceo-tourism and other nature-based forms of tourism, adtura! tourism that does not relate directlYto agriCtllture (e.g., outdoor dramas, nautankies, rasleelas, that occurs in rural areas but do not have an agriculture theme), or rural adventure tourism. Agri- Tourism Entrepreneurship mqy be new concept for farmers to get into enterprise and business system. EntreprenCllrship development through .Agri-toaris»: business is not yet found in Indian rural or farm areas. Indian Agriculture is still for awqy from its tourism exposure, few states of India like Rqjasthan, Assam, Haryana, U'P; Kerala, and so on are attracting tourism for their villages but still there is no conceptfound regarding Agri-tourism. Agri- Tourism Entrepreneurship mqy be a useful tool for the development of rural areas of India.