Agro-Tourism Scope and Opportunities for the Farmers in Maharashtra

Kumbhar, Vijay M.

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Agro-Tourism Scope and Opportunities for the Farmers in Maharashtra

Vijay M. Kumbhar

Dhananjayrao Gadgil College of Commerce, Satara Dist-Satara Maharashtra, India 415001

February 9, 2010

Indiastat, September-October 2009

Abstract:
Tourism is now well recognised as an engine of growth in the various economies in the world. Several countries have transformed their economies by developing their tourism potential. Tourism has great capacity to generate large-scale employment and additional income sources to the skilled and unskilled. Today the concept of traditional tourism has been changed. Some new areas of the tourism have been emerged like Agro-Tourism. Promotion of tourism would bring many direct and indirect benefits to the people.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 13

Keywords: Employment, Income, Rural development

JEL Classification: Q13, Q19

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Date posted: February 11, 2010 ; Last revised: July 13, 2010

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Kumbhar, Vijay M., Agro-Tourism Scope and Opportunities for the Farmers in Maharashtra (February 9, 2010). Indiastat, September-October 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1550170

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