Agritourism’s Multidimensional Impact on Local Development Incorporating Innovation and Resilience Factors: Evidence from Corfu Island, Greece

Agritourism, a tourism activity that is related to agriculture, has become more popular and gained importance as a strategy for fostering local development. In this article, we adopt a methodological framework that operationalizes the multidimensional impacts of agritourism on local development, adding issues of innovation as a critical success factor. Primary data were collected through in-depth interviews with the use of semi-structured questionnaires to agritourism units from a case study on Corfu Island, located in the Ionian Sea of Greece. The results reveal that the resilience of the island from tourism activity and the geographic characteristics related to its accessibility also affect agritourism, providing agritourism entrepreneurs a platform to access global markets and embrace sustainable practices.