(TMPE 2 7:30-9:00 AM Tues Fri) Agri-Tourism

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to give a clear and a wholistic overview of what Agri-Tourism is, and its role in the whole Tourism industry. It introduces relevant events leading to the formalization of what is known today as Agri-Tourism and the requisites of certain properties in adherence to becoming an agri-tourism or a farm site. Certain cases from selected locations in the globe and in the country Philippines, are also discussed revealing key features and endeavors contributory to these properties’ being tagged as farm tourism or agri-tourism destinations. The importance of this form of tourism in the whole Tourism industry is likewise presented, thereby providing realization that this too, aside from the other forms of tourism, play a significant role in contributing multiple benefits to the community’s stakeholders.