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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFemale Entrepreneurship and Agritourism Cooperatives in the Greeκ Periphery: An OverviewDimitrios Stavroulakis, Stefanos Karagiannis, Roido Mitoula, Aristides PapagrigoriouThis study investigates the status of female entrepreneurs in the Greek countryside as formed in the recent years owed to the emergence of agritourism. Agritourism has provided opportunities for additional income in localities through the utilization of knowledge of traditional customs, recipes, folk art. Women entrepreneurs in the sector often function within a context of adverse circumstances, pertaining to their … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 13 Mar 2014 · 7,572 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleApplied Issues of Agritourism Cooperation and Sustainable Endogenous DevelopmentHelen Theodoropoulou, Roido Mitoula, Olga Astara, Panagiotis KaldisThis research aims at examining how an agritourism cooperative and its activities promote endogenous development using local human, natural and technological resources in a sustainable way with other local production activities. Technology allows the agritourism cooperative to effectively use local resources and simultaneously to increase its competitiveness in marketing of products. So, the cooperative becomes more competitive in regional and … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 11 · 30 Nov 2008 · 6,732 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractChanges in Rural Areas and Regional DevelopmentHelen Theodoropoulou, Panagiotis KaldisThe present study examines how regional development has been affected by social, economic and environmental changes in three regions located in central Greece. These regions were affected significantly by social and economic changes, because of substantial new infrastructure development that took place related to a ski resort and agritourism establishments. Sample data were collected on the characteristics of residents and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2008 · 7,821 accessesView PDF Cite