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Rural Tourism

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Rural tourism has been considered as a means of achieving economic and social development and regeneration that can benefit to local people.

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Fang, WT. (2020). Rural Tourism. In: Tourism in Emerging Economies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2463-9_5

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