"The Future can only be Imagined" - Innovation in Farm Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID12959768
AuthorsKramvig Kramvig (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume3
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Open Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-9453
PublisherBentham Science Publishers Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2174/1874945301003010051
OpenAlexW2139657228
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This article relates to the fast growing research literature on innovation by adopting a phenomenological perspective of change and how change comes about.We visited nineteen farms in Norway in a project on farm-based tourism.Results show highly differentiated products but similar routes in transforming a farm no longer seen as economically viable, into a way of doing life and doing work that brings a complex of considerations together.The concept of imaginative horizons is used and seen as characteristic of the transformative process of turning the farm into a farm based tourist enterprise.The same transformation becomes a way of keeping the relationship and interdependence between the past and the present vivid and meaningful

Culinary Culture and Tourism · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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