Sustainable practices for the wine tourism development in support of the local and social economy

Abstract

The paper focuses on several scenarios for sustainable tourism that can be resourcefully applied to the field of wine tourism as a kind of special interest tourism. Firstly, we start with a short analysis of different examples of sustainable tourism i.e. trekking, green transport (part of the green deal) associated with modern wine tourism. Secondly, we delve on the aspects of social entrepreneurship. The examples are best practices in developed tourist destinations, like Italy, Slovenia, Hungary. Thirdly, we elaborate why stakeholders may profit from a discernable added value of wine tourism, thanks to social ventures and the advantages of social entrepreneurship as a way to ensure sustainability for the local communities, comfortable experience for the tourists and shared welfare for all stakeholders.