Agrotourism is a promising direction for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in rural areas (foreign experience)

Issue № 6, 2021, article № 14, pages 127-137

Section: International relations and world agricultural experience

Language: Russian

Original language title: АГРОТУРИЗМ – ПЕРСПЕКТИВНОЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЕ РАЗВИТИЯ МАЛОГО И СРЕДНЕГО ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСТВА В СЕЛЬСКОЙ МЕСТНОСТИ (ЗАРУБЕЖНЫЙ ОПЫТ)

Keywords: SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTREPRENEURSHIP, DIVERSIFICATION OF THE RURAL ECONOMY, AGROTOURISM, FOREIGN EXPERIENCE, STATE SUPPORT MEASURES

Abstract: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered in foreign countries as a necessary element of successful economic development. In some countries, its contribution to GDP can reach 70‰. The state and pace of development of small and medium-sized businesses in Russia do not yet meet the needs of the country's economy. In order to solve this problem, the National Project "Small and medium-sized Entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative has been approved in the Russian Federation. In rural areas, SMEs provide employment for the local population, increase their income and well-being, reduce the outflow of population to cities and preserve the village as a habitat. One of the promising areas of sustainable development of the rural economy and its diversification is agrotourism, which has a successful history in many foreign countries, especially in Europe. Agrotourism is the sphere of activity in which small and medium-sized businesses are mainly involved. Although Russia has a great natural, cultural and ethnographic potential, agrotourism is not developing intensively enough in the country due to a number of unfavorable factors that are considered in the article. The study of foreign experience in this area will contribute to the improvement of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of tourism, including in rural areas, and the elimination of existing shortcomings and problems. The article analyzes the current state of agrotourism in a number of foreign countries where it plays an important economic and social role (Poland, Austria, Germany, China), as well as the structures and measures of state support for its development.

Authors: SHelamova Nadezhda Afanasevna