Potential Development of Geographical Studies on Rural Tourism with the Adoption of the Research Framework of Food Tourism

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  • KIKUCHI Toship
    Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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  • 地理学におけるルーラルツーリズム研究の展開と可能性
  • 地理学におけるルーラルツーリズム研究の展開と可能性--フードツーリズムのフレームワークを援用するために
  • チリガク ニ オケル ルーラルツーリズム ケンキュウ ノ テンカイ ト カノウセイ フードツーリズム ノ フレームワーク オ エンヨウ スル タメニ
  • フードツーリズムのフレームワークを援用するために

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Abstract

The present paper provides some ideas on the potential development of geographical studies on rural tourism in terms of rural geography. Rural geography approaches to rural tourism turned from the static analysis of actual conditions towards the dynamic analysis of regional changes in relation to characteristics of rural areas. In recent years, with conservation and sustainable use of rural environment becoming leading themes of rural tourism studies, the framework of sustainable rural systems plays an important role in approaches to rural tourism. These trends in rural tourism studies correspond to a shift in the geographical debates on rural areas, away from the framework of productivism, towards that of post-productivism. While economic profit is the driving force of rural development within the framework of productivism, the central elements of sustainable rural development within the alternative framework of post-productivism are the multi-functional use of rural environment and diversity of resources. Geographical approaches to rural tourism, therefore, use the framework of post-productivism for general discussion on multi-functional use of rural environment and resources. The present paper suggests the use of the framework of food tourism as a synthetic approach to rural tourism, which is based on diversity of rural environment and resources. Within the framework of food tourism, the focus is on spaces of rural, agricultural, market, slow food, and gourmet landscape and their respective hierarchy; each space is nested within multilayer structure from the broad rural space to the specialized gourmet landscape. The space of food tourism is based on traditional, cultural, ecological environments in addition to socio- and economic environments, and is mutually connected with others. As a result, the sustainable development of the whole space of rural tourism is possible, based on the multi-layer structure of spatial contents such as rural, agricultural, market, slow food and gourmet landscape.

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  • Geographical Space

    Geographical Space 1 (1), 32-52, 2008

    Japan Association on Geographical Space

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