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Missouri Travel Showcase
AgriMissouri will be participating in the Missouri Travel Council’s Showcase Marketplace. This is a trade show that tour buyers attend to get new ideas for group travel. The current trend is hands-on experiences so agritourism is a natural fit. AgriMissouri will be marketing all members who are able and ready to host group tours.
In order to host a group tour your business must have restroom facilities, liability insurance and space to turn around a motor coach. AgriMissouri is going to be contacting many of you for photos and more information about your business, but if you want to make sure you are not left off the profile sheet that is given to the group tour buyers, contact Sarah at 573-522-9213 to discuss your destination. This profile sheet is all that can be left with the buyer; we are not allowed to leave any additional brochures or information.
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Featured Business |
 Walk-About Acres
Located just outside of Columbia, Missouri, Walk-About Acres offers fun school field trips as well as honey products from their own bees and native plants from their greenhouse.
Each year, several thousand school children will visit Walk-About Acres in Columbia, Missouri. Field trips include learning about and seeing peacocks, rabbits, llamas, and goats, visiting the apiary (home for honey bees), rolling a beeswax candle, potting a plant and eating a honey stick. The kids get to take the honey stick, candle and plant home. It is a great value! The next time your school or group is looking for a fun, yet, educational field trip, check out Walk-About Acres. |
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Agritourism, what is it? |
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Webster.com defines agritourism as “the practice of touring agricultural areas to see farms and often to participate in farm activities.” AgriMissouri shortened that definition to “any agribusiness or farm that provides an agricultural experience.” Basically, when you visit a pumpkin farm, dairy, u-pick berry patch or orchard, winery, corn maze, Christmas tree farm or take a school trip to a farm, you are an agritourist.
Agritourism has been around for many years but it has become very popular in the last five to ten years. Why is that? According to Jane Eckert, Eckert AgriMarketing, “People want to have their children see a cow first-hand, rather than in a book,” Eckert said. “They want to see where their food comes from and who grows it.”
Years ago most of people had grandparents or a cousin that lived on a farm who they visited every summer. Today, more of people live in urban areas and so do their grandparents or relatives. As this trend has developed so has the need for the farm experience or agritourism. In addition, visiting an agritourism destination is a great day trip or weekend family activity
To find an agritourism destination near you, visit the AgriMissouri Buyer’s Guide or contact AgriMissouri at 1-866-466-8283 to obtain the Agritourism Map.
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