What characterizes rural tourism?

What are the characteristics of rural tourism? Beijing Shanheshuiyi Planning and Design Institute analysis, China is a big agricultural country, the rural population still accounts for nearly 70% of the total population, even the city people have a strong rural complex. China's rural tourism started late, but has attracted widespread attention and great interest. Its characteristics are:

First, all tourism activities of tourists occur in the "countryside" within this specific regional environment. Secondly, tourism resources should be developed and to be developed in the countryside, native or regenerated, collectively or individually owned natural and social resources. Thirdly, tourism resources, tourism facilities and tourism services shall have relatively strong local, rural and national characteristics. Fourthly, the employees, including managers, who provide various services to tourists should be mainly trained agricultural people.　　　Fifth, the rural tourism economy both rural collective economy and rural individual economic components, it is included in the rural economic accounting system, some of the accounting content can be virtually integrated into the entire national tourism economic statistics to reflect the development of China's tourism industry.