Study on the Concept of Rural Tourism and Leverage of Some Specific Activities from Rural Areas through Rural Tourism

Abstract

The popularity of the forms of rural tourism has grown in recent years. From the individual initiatives it become a real alternative for leisure. In the majority of rural settlements, defining emblematic is multiple: landscape quality and warmth of the people, works of art and folk technique, traditional occupations, costumes, customs, traditions, cuisine, local resources, etc. To these are added awareness, by farmers, of the need to diversify the activities by engaging in forestry, tourism or calling certain activities on specific period, within the local economy.