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<p>Considering the multi-layered issues of rural peripheries and tourism development, we explore actors’ views regarding farm tourism development in the historical/geographical region of Lika. In spite of the fact that important flows of goods and services pass through Lika, it is largely regarded as a peripheral area. Via semi-structured interviews with tourist farm owners and institutional actors involved with farm and rural tourism, we examine how their views relate to characteristics associated with peripherality. In a setting with very few family farms that have developed a farm tourism product, the regional actors see both potential and limitations in characteristics linked to peripherality, general development trends, and local specificities.</p>
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Considering the multi-layered issues of rural peripheries and tourism development, we explore actors’ views regarding farm tourism development in the historical/geographical region of Lika. In spite of the fact that important flows of goods and services pass through Lika, it is largely regarded as a peripheral area. Via semi-structured interviews with tourist farm owners and institutional actors involved with farm and rural tourism, we examine how their views relate to characteristics associated with peripherality. In a setting with very few family farms that have developed a farm tourism product, the regional actors see both potential and limitations in characteristics linked to peripherality, general development trends, and local specificities.

Tourism in a Peripheral Setting: A Case Study of Farm Tourism Development in Lika, Croatia

mag. geogr., Department of Geography, Faculty of Science

PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science

European Countryside

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Considering the multi-layered issues of rural peripheries and tourism development, we explore actors’ views regarding farm tourism development in the...

Tourism in a Peripheral Setting: A Case Study of Farm Tourism Development in Lika, Croatia

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 140 - 156

Received: Sep 19, 2020

Accepted: Nov 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2022-0008

Keywords
farm tourism, rural tourism, periphery, Lika, Croatia

© 2022 Ivana Žafran et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Tourism in a Peripheral Setting: A Case Study of Farm Tourism Development in Lika, Croatia

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 140 - 156

Received: Sep 19, 2020

Accepted: Nov 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2022-0008

Keywordsfarm tourism, rural tourism, periphery, Lika, Croatia

© 2022 Ivana Žafran et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
farm tourism, rural tourism, periphery, Lika, Croatia