Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyse the likelihood of agricultural workers in rural areas converting to the tourism sector. Chile is used as a case study, drawing on the CASEN survey of 2017 to analyse differences between the northern, central, and southern regions of the country and construct a satellite account of tourism. A matching process was carried out within the data, and the estimation of a logit model was done to assess the probability of labour reconversion. The results indicate that an agricultural worker has a 12.8% probability of retraining. However, differences emerged when demographic characteristics were analysed; specifically, people with post-secondary education and women have a higher probability of retraining. These and other sociodemographic characteristics are important to explain potential labour reconversion towards tourism in rural areas, although differences arose between areas of the country. Therefore, homogeneous public policies that do not consider the specific characteristics of the territories within a country will be ineffective.
Highlights
Sustainability 2021, 13, 11152. https://Tourism can act as either a complementary economic activity or an alternative economic substitution/diversification in rural areas characterised by an agrarian or agricultural economy and low wages or incomes in developed and developing countries.The above is especially relevant in Latin America where, in terms of labour, agricultural activities are important but the sector faces many emerging productivity challenges.In Chile, the agricultural sector is a competitive industry
In this research we focus on transitions from the agricultural sector to tourism, and we aim to calculate the probability that this transition might happen
Likelihood of Workers in the Agricultural Sector Participating in the Tourism Sector
Summary
Sustainability 2021, 13, 11152. https://Tourism can act as either a complementary economic activity or an alternative economic substitution/diversification in rural areas characterised by an agrarian or agricultural economy and low wages or incomes in developed and developing countries.The above is especially relevant in Latin America where, in terms of labour, agricultural activities are important but the sector faces many emerging productivity challenges.In Chile, the agricultural sector is a competitive industry. Tourism can act as either a complementary economic activity or an alternative economic substitution/diversification in rural areas characterised by an agrarian or agricultural economy and low wages or incomes in developed and developing countries. The above is especially relevant in Latin America where, in terms of labour, agricultural activities are important but the sector faces many emerging productivity challenges. But it is an increasingly less labour-intensive industry and today requires increasingly specialised labour skills. A high tech driven agricultural sector coexists with a low tech sector where workers have a low level of schooling. In the latter case, the reconversion towards rural tourism could be considered a positive avenue for continuing to develop their work and lifestyle in rural areas
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