Rural tourism involves visiting rural communities to experience their daily social, cultural, and productive activities. It is characterized by respecting the natural and cultural heritage of the area and encouraging the participation and authority of local communities. Rural tourism provides economic diversification for small farmers and producers by allowing them to supplement their income from agriculture. Examples of rural tourism include agritourism focused on local customs, gastronomy, and crafts; ecotourism based on interacting with nature; and agroecotourism where visitors participate in agricultural work and live with rural families.

1. RURAL TOURISM

2. What is rural
tourism?
Rural tourism: Trips whose purpose is to
carry out activities of coexistence and
interaction with a rural community, in all
those social, cultural and productive daily
expressions of the same

3. Characteristics of rural
tourism

4. 1
The aspects that characterize this type of
tourism is the conscious practice of the use
of the area's natural and cultural resources,
as well as respect for the area's heritage.

5. 2
In many cases, their inhabitants have the
authority and the participation of the
communities is encouraged, trying to
achieve sustainable development.

6. 3
Rural tourism is a complementary economic
activity to agriculture, which allows small
producers or production units to diversify
and expand their source of income, thereby
reducing their dependence on monoculture.
The training and organization of the agrarian
sector in the creation of jobs and permanent
self-employment is essential.

7. Examples of
Rural
Tourism

8. Field
It is developed in rural areas, whose main
motivation is to know the customs and
traditions of man in the rural world. He is
interested in gastronomy, popular culture,
crafts.

9. Ecotourism
Based on contact with nature. Its resources
are made up of reserves and national parks,
that is, an interesting flora and fauna in the
receptive area.

10. Agroecotourism
It is the one where the visitor stays in a room
with tourist standards, but participates in
agricultural work, lives with the community and
consumes the food collected with the family.