Rural Tourism and Project Management

Abstract

The many-sided character of tourism, in general, and of agro-tourism, in particular, does not allow us to describe it asan industry in the technical sense because this sector does not imply a single specific production or very well definedoperational parameters. We will always start from the idea that tourism must be an element of maintaining anddeveloping of agricultural activities and not a distinct element (in the sense of an urbanization of the environment ofthe country side). The tourism system implies decision-making and the placing of responsibility as close as possibleto the place of the production activity (that means the household, farm), which means increasing authority for therural family which provides the tourist services. The success of agro-tourism depends mostly on the capacity of theregion to apply the development projects, with all the changes which are brought by this type of tourism to theregion, in general, and the households, in particular.