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Vilayat İsmayilov, Aygun Samadova, Sarraf Mirzayev: The Role of Rural Tourism in
the Development of the Rural Economy
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In his research, Ante S.A. wrote that to attract tourists from other countries of the

world we have to act like American gambling companies, which have achieved great
success in Macau in recent years, face growing competition from casinos appearing
in Asia in order to attract Chinese high rollers and tourists (Ante, 2012:52-65).

Weak development of rural tourism in Azerbaijan is due to some shortcomings in the
state of economy (İsmayilov, 2018: 2-6). The rural tourism can be formed in the shape
of agrarian and farmer types. The agrarian rural tourism is intended with the intense
relations activity with agriculture as a tourist. It is necessary to take part in some
holidays which is typical for those areas, to visit the historical places of the village, to
go to the museums and other special places of the village. These are directly related
with the local traditions and with the production of agricultural products.

The farmer tourism implies the various actions related with the activity of certain
farms which organized in the rural areas. The high unemployment in rural areas can
be attributed to the basic reasons of development of the farmer tourism and it leads
to the development of labor productivity. As a result of the increase in agricultural
capital the lab our productivity develops (Desyatova, 2017: 78-96). Thus agrarian
and farmer tourism are the similar models in their formation and development. It can
be used as a synonym if needed.

In some countries in order to attract tourists to the historical places, to the historical
monuments etc. located in the rural areas and to arrange tourist travelling to picnic,
to those historical places is popular and it is considered one of the kinds of tourism.

Currently, the boundaries of the concept of “tourist infrastructure” are vague,
because formulated an integral set of essential features that distinguish this object or
a class of objects (phenomena) from all similar to them. Often, tourism
infrastructure is considered as a synonym for the tourism industry, recreational
infrastructure, and the material and technical base of tourism. His uncertainty
complicates the understanding of the essence of the most important resource factor
in the organization and development of tourism and recreation activities - tourism
infrastructure. It is impossible to correctly organize its statistics. We made an
attempt to summarize the methodological studies of the tourist infrastructure and
formulate its concept, having previously established the functional features,
properties and composition. This uncertainty complicates the understanding of the
essence of the most important resource factor in the organization and development
of tourism and recreation activities - tourism infrastructure.

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