Table Of ContentAgritourism, Wine Tourism,
and Craft Beer Tourism
This book delves into the development opportunities for peripheral areas
explored through the emerging practices of agritourism, wine tourism, and
craft beer tourism. It celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of people living in
peri-urban regions.
Peripheral areas tend to be far from urban hubs, providing essential ser-
vices but also typically suffering from marginalisation and remoteness,
despite the access to environmental, cultural, and social resources. In this
sense, this book investigates the linkages between local agency and tourism
in peripheral areas, the role of existing policies, and the evolving bottom-up
practices in fostering local development. The basic aim is to disestablish
the dichotomies that often emerge when dealing with issues of rural–urban
and/or centre–periphery relationships; innovation vs tradition; authenticity
vs mise en scène; agency vs inertia; and social, cultural, economic mobil-
ity vs immobility; etc. With focused attention on the possible compliance
or conflicting strategies of local actors with the existing policies, the book
considers how local actors and communities respond to the implications of
peripherality in areas often impacted by marginalising processes.
Drawing upon case studies from North America and Europe, this book
presents this connection as a global phenomenon which will be of interest to
community and economic development planners and entrepreneurs.
Maria Giulia Pezzi, PhD in European Ethnography, is Post-Doctoral Re-
search Fellow at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) as a member of the
Social Sciences research unit, working on a research project on the devel-
opment of peripheral areas in Italy, specifically in relation to the Italian
National Strategy for Inner Areas. Her current research focuses on tourism
policies and heritage-making strategies as development tools for rural ar-
eas, and on the role that local entrepreneurship can play in such processes
from a bottom-up perspective.
Alessandra Faggian is a Professor of Applied Economics, Director of Social
Sciences, and Vice Provost for Research at the Gran Sasso Science Insti-
tute, L’Aquila, Italy. She is past President of the North American Regional
Science Council (NARSC) and co-editor of “Journal in Regional Science”.
Dr Faggian’s research interests lie in the fields of regional and urban eco-
nomics, demography, labour economics, and economics of education.
Neil Reid, Ph.D., is a Professor of Geography and Planning at the Univer-
sity of Toledo. He holds MA degrees in Geography from the University of
Glasgow and Miami University and a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona
State University. He is an economic geographer and regional scientist with
research interests in industrial location, regional economic restructuring,
and local economic development. His current research focuses on a number
of areas including the health of metropolitan labour markets in the United
States, policies to deal with decline in America’s shrinking cities, and the
economic development opportunities surrounding America’s rapidly grow-
ing craft brewing industry.
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and Craft Beer Tourism
Local Responses to Peripherality
Through Tourism Niches
Edited by Maria Giulia Pezzi,
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Title: Agritourism, wine tourism, and craft beer tourism: local
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Contents
List of figures x
List of maps xi
List of tables xii
List of contributors xiii
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction: local responses to peripherality through
tourism development 1
MARIA GIULIA PEZZI, ALESSANDRA FAGGIAN
AND NEIL REID
PART I
Agritourism 13
1 Targeting agritourism to leverage the unique natural
resources base and heritage of the rural west 15
ANDERS VAN SANDT, DAWN THILMANY,
AND REBECCA HILL
2 Do Rural Development Policies enhance performance
of agritourism farms in Italy? 31
MARUSCA DE CASTRIS AND DANIELE DI GENNARO
3 Rural development and sustainable tourism: a case for family
farming in the Alta Murgia National Park (Italy) 52
SIMONA GIORDANO
viii Contents
4 Challenges of promoting tourism to encourage the local
development of fishing communities 73
EVELIA DE JESUS IZABAL DE LA GARZA AND
MARCELA REBECA CONTRERAS LOERA
PART II
Wine tourism 91
5 ‘A big fish in a small pond’: how Arizona wine
country was made 93
COLLEEN C. MYLES, MICHELE TOBIAS AND
INNISFREE McKINNON
6 Wine routes and efficiency of wineries in Sardinia 113
MARIA GIOVANNA BRANDANO, CLAUDIO DETOTTO
AND MARCO VANNINI
7 Wine tourism and local entrepreneurship in peripheral
areas of Greece: a regional analysis 131
MARY CONSTANTOGLOU, STELLA KOSTOPOULOU,
NIKOLAOS TRIHAS AND SMARAGDA ZAGKOTSI
8 The emergence of tourism niches in rural areas: the case
of Wine Tourism in Alentejo, Portugal 150
JOANA NEVES, ANDRÉ MAGRINHO AND JOAQUIM
RAMOS SILVA
PART III
Craft beer tourism 171
9 Tourism, authenticity, and craft beer: the case of
West Virginia 173
DOUGLAS ARBOGAST, JASON KOZLOWSKI
AND DANIEL EADES
10 Beercations: a spatial analysis of the U.S. craft brewery
and tourism sectors 192
ANDREW CRAWLEY AND TODD GABE
11 Caring for community through crafted beer: perspectives
from Northern Sweden 208
WILHELM SKOGLUND AND ANNELIE SJÖLANDER-LINDQVIST
Contents ix
12 From landscapes to drinkscapes: craft beer, tourism, and
local development in the Italian Apennines 226
MARIA GIULIA PEZZI
Conclusion: Tourism in peripheral regions: some challenges 243
NEIL REID, MARIA GIULIA PEZZI AND ALESSANDRA FAGGIAN
Index 255
