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Sustainability of model projects in rural development taking as example the project income maintenance through village tourism.
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-PID1382
Contract period: 01.08.2006
- 30.06.2009
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Can village tourism help to develop rural areas? This was the question of a model project that was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the new member states between 1993 and 1995. Based on village tourism sustainable concepts of rural development should be tested. Approximately ten years after the model project, sustainability has been evaluated.
The results of the model project due to 'income maintenance through village tourism' are ambivalent. On the one hand, the model-project triggered sustainable development impulses, especially in village renewal. It strengthened the space-centered identity as well as the collaboration of the diverse actors. In so far it continues to have a positive effect. In four out of the five regions an attractive infrastructure for local recreation could be established that is accepted by the population. On the other hand considerable differences due to the implications of the model-project exist in the regions. A positive development can especially be observed in regions where key-actors pushed the development on with their own initiative and succeeded in motivating people to participate (Glaisin, Kläden, Schlieben). In the successful regions the space ?centered identity could be enhanced. But in no region could a significant income maintenance through village tourism be achieved as intended.
Section overview
Subjects
- Business administration
- Agricultural Sociology
