{"id":1615,"date":"2023-05-16T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2023-06-07T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:02:01","slug":"world-agritourism-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/latest-news\/world-agritourism-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Agritourism Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row row-collapse\"  id=\"row-557834384\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-391243626\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-1150674375\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Little-Red-Wagon-Winery-03-1536x1024.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1150674375 {\n  padding-top: 400px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #banner-1150674375 {\n    padding-top: 700px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row align-center\"  id=\"row-1755230288\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1102039899\" class=\"col medium-11 small-11 large-11\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p><strong>MEDIA RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>For Immediate Release\u202f<\/p>\n<p>WORLD AGRITOURISM DAY : Local Development Organizations Highlight The Growth Of Pontiac\u2019s Agritourism Industry During World Agritourism Day.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>FORT-COULONGE (QC) May 16, 2023 \u2013\u202f Today, May 16th is recognized as World Agritourism Day. The Agritourism Platform and the Global Agritourism Network (GAN) are proud to host events to properly celebrate this anniversary. This year Agri Tourism Development Corporation (India) celebrate the 16th World Agritourism Day with a 2-day online International Conference on \u201cGreen Growth through Agritourism\u201d at which Rhonda Perry, Director of SADC Pontiac and David Gillespie, local agricultural representative made a presentation on development of the future agritourism trail network. \u202f<\/p>\n<p>Our region prides itself on a rich and long-standing agricultural history.\u202f This industry has evolved significantly in the past decade to not only continue and perfect traditional practices, but also innovate and expand our farms to now host a diverse agricultural offer which includes, hopyards, wineries, fiber farms as well as non-traditional herds such as lamas, yaks and ostrich.\u202f It is through this development that agritourism has become a focus for the economic future of our region.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>The MRC Pontiac and SADC Pontiac are striving to support sustainable agritourism projects for the region such as the partnership for the agritourism trails with Ontario, New York and Vermont the economic benefits we see for rural regions developing and investing in their agritourism offer are numerous.\u202f Agritourism is a catalyst to diversification and revitalization of communities, it fosters sustainable living and tourism as well as connects people to rural culture and traditions.\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Is it, therefore, with much enthusiasm and excitement, we wish you all a wonderful and productive World Agritourism Day.\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Follow the conversation: #worldagritourismday\u202f<\/p>\n<p>QUICK FACTS\u202f<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agri Tourism is a form of sound, environmentally sustainable and socially responsible tourism development which has the potential to contribute substantially to local socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Importantly, and with the right support and guidance, Agri Tourism can also contribute to the conservation and protection of natural, cultural and ethnical resources. \u202f<\/li>\n<li>AGRI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (ATDC \u2013 Agri Tourism India) has focused on enhancement of local socio-economic development and poverty alleviation of rural and remote communities since early 2000s through Agri Tourism and community-based agritourism development. Agri Tourism projects have commenced under the ATDC\u2019s guidance. Maharashtra is the first State in India to have a formal \u201cAgri Tourism Policy in September, 2020\u201d\u202f<\/li>\n<li>The overall theme for this conference of Green Growth through Agri Tourism is how development of agriculture and allied activities can be promoted through the development of Agri and Sustainable Tourism and how this can lead to diversification of local economies. This requires the involvement of a number of responsible key personnel with each playing their role and guided by sound development principles.\u202f<br \/>More information on the international conference available at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/agritourism.eurac.edu\/world-agritourism-day-wad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/agritourism.eurac.edu\/world-agritourism-day-wad\/\u202f\u202f<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-30-\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Contact for Interview :\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>MRC Pontiac<br \/>Shanna Armstrong<br \/>Commissaire au d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique<br \/>819-648-5689 poste 304<br \/><a href=\"mailto:s.armstrong@mrcpontiac.qc.ca\">s.armstrong@mrcpontiac.qc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1102039899 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 25px 10px 0px 10px;\n  margin: -150px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #col-1102039899 > .col-inner {\n    padding: 55px 150px 0px 150px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURN\u00c9E MONDIALE DE L&#8217;AGROTOURISME : Les organismes de d\u00e9veloppement local soulignent la croissance de l&#8217;industrie agrotouristique du Pontiac \u00e0 l&#8217;occasion de la Journ\u00e9e mondiale de l&#8217;agritourisme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadcpontiac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}