Actualidad del Turismo Rural en Europa: Andalucía y el Reino de Noruega, un estudio comparativo

From the European perspectives about the Rural Tourism concept this paper analyzes different aspects as regard of its growth, extension, development, characteristics and potential in Southern and Northern zone of Europe. Focusing in two different population centres as regard its socioeconomic and cultural structure like they are Norway and Andalucía. Norway as a model of the rich Scandinavian growth and Spanish Comunidad Autónoma of Andalucía which has large areas of operating dedicated to this new productive sector of touristic industry and is involved, at the same time, in a process of agricultural and livestock reconversion. The analyze of both study cases proposed is focused specifically to compare the development of the establishment of productive market niche of Rural Tourism in this two selected zones and the socioeconomic and cultural consequences of this introduction and its trajectory.