Current rural development should focus on new activities that are happening in rural areas: agriculture and forestry (remaining activities), small industry, handicrafts and services, rural tourism, housing, social life and culture, preservation of natural environment cultivation of cultural heritage, education and telecommunications development. The mobile communications have created new opport...

Rural tourism market place is becoming more highly competitive. Developing the competitive strategy, however, is a challenging task for many marketers because the rural tourism is changing dramatically in the face of fierce competition, increasing customer sophistication and rapid technological advances. How to enhance tourists’ revisit intention for marketers have become more and more critical...

Taking a livelihood perspective to study tourism has become popular in recent years, but as an essential part of livelihood analysis, institutional processes have not yet received enough attention. This study focuses on the influences of formal and informal institutions on small tourism businesses in rural areas. A case study was conducted in Hong Kong, and the entitlements framework was adopte...

BACKGROUND In recent years, a new pattern of schistosomiasis transmission has been described which is related to recreational activities associated with rural or ecological tourism and migratory flows and accompanying changes in social dynamics in Brazil. The objective of this report is to describe two schistosomiasis outbreaks that occurred during the practice of rural tourism in Minas Gerais,...