What is rural tourism?

The so-called "rural tourism" is a tourism activity that takes agricultural cultural landscape, agricultural ecological environment, agricultural production activities and national traditional customs as resources and integrates viewing, inspection, learning, participation, entertainment, shopping and vacation.

China's rural tourism started late, rose after the reform and opening up in the 1980s, and developed in the middle and late 1990s.

Rural tourism has its distinctive features:

1. Rural tourism is a new industry integrating agricultural production, agricultural product processing and leisure services.

2. Rural tourism is an agricultural management mode that embodies the integration of production, life and ecology.

3. Leisure products, activities and services provided by rural tourism have the characteristics of service goods.

It has distinct seasonality, different seasons and different feelings, and tourism does not affect normal agricultural production.

The harmony between man and nature can provide tourists with opportunities to get close to and return to nature.