Tourist motivations vary from an individual to another. Different people travel for different purposes and these purposes include to escape from their usual hectic lives, to relax, for education purposes, some travel because they have to for instance for their health and many other reasons. People travel to different places depending on what they want to seek for or what motivates them. For example, a person who wants to calm their mind may travel to destination that offers nature as their main attraction, while a person who is suffering from cancer may want to travel to Houston to seek medical treatment in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center because it is one of the top ranked hospital for cancer in the world.
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From this, it can be concluded that this kind of tourism occurs only at places on the outskirts or the countryside and as we all know, countryside is usually associated with the nature for instance the landscape and the wild. In short, a rural tourism is actually a form of ecotourism. Although in the journal it was mentioned that in some other countries, rural tourism is also known as farm tourism (also agritourism and agrotourism), the two is not to be confused because they are two different things, whereby the latter is only a subcategory of rural tourism. In agritourism or agrotourism, tourists are brought to a farm or ranch so that they can experience working on the farm, or maybe for the purpose of education and learning, and this indirectly helps to generate income for the farm or ranch owners. As for rural tourism, tourists visit the destination for various motivations in which I will explain more later on. There are many activities that can be done by rural tourists and though it includes agricultural activities, it is not restricted to only agricultural based activities such as walking in the jungle, going hunting and riding. Apart from that, rural tourism destinations usually offer accommodation in small lodging and also in small cottages. Basically, rural tourism is far from being …show more content…
So they expect a quiet and relax atmosphere, a place where very few people is around, beautiful landscape and scenery and most importantly nature and peacefulness. Rural tourists in Finland on the other hand anticipate nature the most, specifically the view of the lake and also the forest. Another reason that they choose to go for rural tourism is because they want to interact with other tourists and also because these non-urban destinations brought back their childhood memories. Rural travelers who travel to outskirts area in Portugal get the advantages in terms of learning the traditional way of life, their architecture, civilization, festivals and events, entertainment, chance to try doing sports and recreation and also the calming
In 2005, Hartig …show more content…
From this, it can be concluded that this kind of tourism occurs only at places on the outskirts or the countryside and as we all know, countryside is usually associated with the nature for instance the landscape and the wild. In short, a rural tourism is actually a form of ecotourism. Although in the journal it was mentioned that in some other countries, rural tourism is also known as farm tourism (also agritourism and agrotourism), the two is not to be confused because they are two different things, whereby the latter is only a subcategory of rural tourism. In agritourism or agrotourism, tourists are brought to a farm or ranch so that they can experience working on the farm, or maybe for the purpose of education and learning, and this indirectly helps to generate income for the farm or ranch owners. As for rural tourism, tourists visit the destination for various motivations in which I will explain more later on. There are many activities that can be done by rural tourists and though it includes agricultural activities, it is not restricted to only agricultural based activities such as walking in the jungle, going hunting and riding. Apart from that, rural tourism destinations usually offer accommodation in small lodging and also in small cottages. Basically, rural tourism is far from being …show more content…
So they expect a quiet and relax atmosphere, a place where very few people is around, beautiful landscape and scenery and most importantly nature and peacefulness. Rural tourists in Finland on the other hand anticipate nature the most, specifically the view of the lake and also the forest. Another reason that they choose to go for rural tourism is because they want to interact with other tourists and also because these non-urban destinations brought back their childhood memories. Rural travelers who travel to outskirts area in Portugal get the advantages in terms of learning the traditional way of life, their architecture, civilization, festivals and events, entertainment, chance to try doing sports and recreation and also the calming