Agrotourism is the form of tourism which capitalize on rural culture
as a tourist attraction. It is similar to ecotourism except that
its primary appeal is not the natural landscape but a cultural
landscape. If the attractions on offer to tourists contribute to improving
the income of the regional population, agrotourism can
promote regional development. To ensure that it also helps to
conserve diversity, the rural population itself must have recognized
agrobiodiversity as valuable and worthy of protection.
There are a range of other forms of rural tourism which are not
necessarily a part of agrotourism in the strict sense - e.g. ethnotourism,
project tourism, health tourism, historical tourism,
cultural tourism or adventure tourism.