Oklahoma Department of Commerce
Your go-to source in Oklahoma for resources for starting and developing your small business. Check out the NEW Economic Development Resource Guide, a guide to the resources you need to open or grow your business.
Promoting Tourism In Rural America
This revision of Promoting Tourism in Rural America covers the major issues in rural tourism including agritourism, cultural/heritage tourism, ecotourism, planning, marketing, economic impact and more. It provides web links to more than fifty full-text "how to" information guides, manuals, and handbooks for assisting local officials communities, and citizens involved in tourism development and includes a section of resource organization.
A Farmer's Guide to Hosting Farm Visits for Kids
Tourism Resources for Planning, Case Studies, Funding and Program Assistance, Publications, etc.
Oklahoma Food & Agricultural Products Center
OSU - OK Food & Agricultural Products Research & Technology Center. The purpose of the Center is to help develop successful value-added enterprises in Oklahoma; to bring the products, the jobs and the dollars back home. The FAPC will bridge the gap that sometimes exists between academics and the private sector by offering large and small businesses, producers and entrepreneurs access to faculty and staff with expertise in business and technical disciplines. The FAPC also offers pilot processing facilities, research laboratories and outstanding educational programs.
OK Travel Industry Association
The Kerr Center
The Kerr Center website includes a section on Marketing, Recreation, Conservation & other Income Opportunities.
North American Farmers' Direct Marketing Association
NAFDMA is a trade association dedicated to nurturing the farm direct marketing industry. Its actions are driven by those whose daily lives are dedicated to this way of life. Its members support their family farms by selling millions of dollars worth of farm-grown produce directly to consumers at farm stands, farmers' markets, pick-your-own farms, consumer-supported agriculture, agritourism venues, and other ever-growing innovations in direct producer-to-consumer agricultural marketing methods.
Rural Bounty
List your business.
Agritourism World
Free listings available for farms and ranches - good resources, what you need to know when you VISIT a farm.
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Paper analyzing agritourism
Duderanch.org
Helping people find quality dude ranch and guest ranch vacations since 1926.
Tourism Research Links by Rene Waksberg
Tourism Research Data
FERMATA Inc.
Great information from FERMATA, Inc. on the Tourism Industry, Experiential Tourism, Cultural Tourism and Resource Inventory.
