What are the characteristics of foreign farm ecotourism?

Although foreign farm tourism develops in various forms, most of them have the following same characteristics:

(1) Based on a mature agricultural industrial structure. The first and most important purpose of agriculture is to provide food and agricultural products, which is the fundamental industry to ensure human survival. If even basic survival needs cannot be met, agriculture will have no spare capacity to develop other industries. However, when the threat to survival gradually disappeared, single agriculture began to shift to a series of comprehensive agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and other comprehensive development agriculture. Only then did farmers' income increase significantly. Farm ecotourism is an emerging tourism method that combines tourism and modern agriculture. It grafts tourism on the basis of mature agriculture to increase the added value of traditional agriculture and form a new economic growth point for agriculture and tourism. Therefore, without a highly developed agriculture and a mature agricultural industrial structure as a basis, farm tourism itself will lose its greatest appeal and hinder the development of agriculture.

(2) The policy system is complete. In developed countries, there are complete policies for the development of farm eco-tourism, such as: macro management, industry management, market scale, etc. of farm eco-tourism. These policy systems ensure the healthy development of farm ecotourism.

(3) Occupy an important industrial position. In developed countries, farm ecotourism has become one of the large-scale and stable tourism methods, and has gradually become a new growth point of the national economy.

According to statistics, tourism consumption in rural areas of France reached 14 billion euros in 2001, equivalent to 19.2% of French individuals' domestic tourism expenditures. In 2001, Italy's more than 10,000 rural tourism enterprises received 21 million tourists, with a turnover of US$430 million, an increase of 12.5% ??over 2000. There are 30 states in the United States that have tourism plans specifically targeting rural areas. California’s agricultural tourism industry generates an annual revenue of 75 million U.S. dollars, and it also drives the development of related industries such as trade, food and accommodation.

(4) It has rich product levels. Foreign farm ecotourism is no longer just for sightseeing. More and more tourists hope to enter the countryside, integrate into nature, and get a leisure experience. In order to meet the needs of tourists, operators of farm eco-tourism have also added more and more diverse agricultural experience activities and leisure and entertainment projects to farm eco-tourism. Of course, any high-level tourism products and needs are based on low-level products, and any high-level tourism consumption cannot completely get rid of the consumption of low-level products. Therefore, with the development of foreign farm eco-tourism, the product system of farm eco-tourism will be more complete and the product types will be richer and more diverse.