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The abstract for paper number 216:
Willem Heijman, Huub Hubregtse, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Regional economic impact of agritourism: method and application to the Netherlands
The paper analyses the regional economic impact of agritourism in the Netherlands. After a short review of the extend of agritourism in the Netherlands, the two-regions-model is introduced as an analytical tool. The model is applied to the twelve provinces of the Netherlands covering the period 1998-2008. The conclusion is that the two-regions-model is more adequate than the recently used one-region-model. Further, the paper concludes that the impact of agritourism on rural employment is limited but not negligible.
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.