Api-Tourism, Bees Tourism

Author

Assistant Professor, Management Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities Science, University of Guilan, Iran. E-mail: h.beigi@guilan.ac.ir

Abstract

Api-Tourism is a type of tourism that has its origin in the culture and traditions of rural communities and can be considered as one of the most stable methods of tourism development .This type of tourism concerns apiary or bee-keeping as a traditional vocation and bee products and their environmental, medicinal and nutritional aspects. Apiary tourism includes visiting apiary sites, bee museums and bee keepers open space activities. Thus the tourists can have the opportunity to watch the beekeeping related works, get familiar with the process of honey production and wonderful colonial life of bees as well as the environmental solidarity of humans and bees. This essay seeks to assay the economic and vocational aspects of apiary tourism and is based on the field observations and librarial studies. The findings of this study can serve as a blueprint to develop the apiary tourism in all bee keeping farms throughout the country and is a new project in its kind .ever undertaken in national scale.

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