Consumers attitudes to innovations in rural tourism sector

Object of research: innovations in rural tourism homesteads. Aim of research: to expose consumers‘ attitudes to innovations in rural tourism. Goal: to gauge consumer opinion about innovations in a rural tourism sector. Aims: 1. To explain the conception of innovations and the process of administration; 2. To discuss the peculiarites of innovations in a rural tourism sector. 3. To evaluate the opportunities for innovations introduced in a rural tourism sector. Investigation: 1. What is the attitude of consumers to apply to innovation in rural tourism services? Final results, conclusions and suggestions Having undertaken the research we can come to the conclusion that respondents‘ attitude towards innovations in a rural tourism sector is different. Some respondents believe that innovations in a rural tourism sector are necessary and useful because they popularize homesteads. The number of consumers would like to see innovation in areas such as educational activities, tastings, presentations of culinary heritage and outdoor activities (winter entertainment adventure parks). The other part of consumers consider innovation as inessential because the purpose of their visit is to mark certain occations in rural tourism homesteads. For this purpose, in rural tourism homesteads clients find everything they need. The third of respondents mention that they neither miss nor need innovations in rural tourism sector. They do not know what kind of innovation in this sector can be and why they need them. Suggestion for owners of homesteads would be to undertake client surveys about the services they offer once a year in order to understand customer needs for services or products and how owners could improve innovative products or services and let clients themselves offer products. Also, my suggestion would be to pay more attention to product and service innovations as, according to the survey, the majority of respondents lack new or improved products and services in this particular area