Agritourism is booming, but many farmers are still asking a much simpler question: where do I start? While the tourism industry talks about opportunity, producers are often navigating planning uncertainty, regulation and risk… making confidence and control, not demand, one of the sector's biggest barriers.

Is agritourism the right diversification move for your farm and your family?

Following a recent farming forum, we’re answering the top five questions farmers ask us when exploring the leap into the agritourism

Discover how three rural councils turned golden fields into a powerhouse destination by choosing partnership over parochialism.

Learn the strategies behind the Canola Trail’s decade of success, and why collaboration is the ultimate secret weapon for regional tourism development.

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Destination manager are always interested to hear how others are doing things.

A successful local tourism organisation (LTO) balances good governance and deep community roots to deliver benefits for members and the destination.

Granite Belt Wine Tourism stands out as a premier example of a successful LTO. 

GBWT's recent past president shares the secrets behind its success in this case study.

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Discover how agritourism could help your farm thrive, with insights from experts into the costs, benefits, and practical steps to get started.

Turn your farm into a destination: insights from the National Agritourism Forum show how farmers can create resilient, thriving agritourism businesses.

Learn from experts what to consider as you develop an agritourism business:

• A planning consultant

• A solicitor on tax implications

• An insurance broker

• A successful agritourism business owner

• General manager of a regional tourism organisation

• Agritourism development consultants

Six things to consider as you get started in developing agritourism on your farm, including information on what is agritourism, the benefits and challenges of agritourism, and what to do as you develop an agritourism business.

Insights from a webinar presented for The Australian Lavender Growers Association.

From field-to-fork experiences to farm tours, agritourism can diversify your income and attract visitors to your region. Here’s what you need to know before you open your farm gate.

Thinking about growing or improving your agritourism offering? Across Australia, there’s a wealth of support available—if you know where to look. This guide breaks down the best tools, grants, training, and planning resources by state to help you turn your agritourism idea into a visitor-ready experience.

Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council and Tilma Group have won a National Economic Development Award for Excellence for agritourism development.

Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council near Wagga Wagga is one of Australia’s leading Councils for proactively developing agritourism.  

Here is what they have achieved with the support of grants and Tilma Group since 2018 - which was recognised with a national economic development award.

A series of Inspiring Agritourism webinars on best practice case studies to support agritourism development.

Randall Breen of Echo Valley Farm in the Goomburra Valley approaches farming and agritourism by developing intimate relationships and with ethical decision making.

The incredible transformation of a small town using an events strategy and the development of an anchor attraction - the journey.

We’ve been mentoring a lot of agritourism operators over the last year.

Here we share examples of how our mentoring supported their business’ growth.

Agriculture and tourism are Australia’s third and sixth largest export industries. Together, they provide a unique opportunity for growth, explored in Australian Regional Tourism’s Agritourism Convention. Here we share our key takeaways.

How do we embrace these natural-born tour guides (I know, not all of them!) and support them to create authentic and transformational tourism experiences across regional Australia?

How can we break down barriers for them and create a viable pathway to diversify into tourism?

How do we enable them to show the REAL Australia?

How rural Coolamon (pop 2,200) increased tourist visitation using a new anchor attraction and a seasonal events campaign, and all the flow on effects…

Deloitte has identified five “super-growth" sectors in Australia: agribusiness, gas, tourism, international education and wealth management. So what happens when you bring two ‘super-growth’ sectors together? Agribusiness + Tourism = an exciting Agritourism partnership!