Rural tourism
More and more domestic and foreign tourists are being attracted to the village by rural tourism. It is essential factor in differentiating and enrichment of business on rural areas, which creates new workplaces and new sources of income apart from agricultural production.
Idea of rural tourism – is based on a few components, the core of which is a local community. Rural tourism is determined by values of particular surroundings, its heritage and culture, rural life activities. Tourists choosing rural type of vacation are searching for valuable and authentic interaction with rural environment and local community.
Agritourism is one of rural tourism kinds. It develops on the basis of visits at rural families’ homesteads and also different possibilities of recreation on the basis of peasant’s farm resources and specific values of agricultural areas. Through the unique connection of agriculture and tourism, agritourism effectively competes with variety of relaxation offers available on the tourist market.
Rural tourism is particularly business of private sector small enterprise. According to the Touristic Objects Record run by Statistical Department in the year 2009, over 14 000 of individual accommodation objects were directed in Poland, nearly 5.5 agritourist lodgings in it.
