Agritourism liability: why definition matters from a legal and risk management perspective

Renata Endres; A. Bryan Endres; Jessica Guarino; Tyler Swanson; Suiwen Zou

doi:10.1080/13683500.2024.2378971

Agritourism liability: why definition matters from a legal and risk management perspective

Renata Endres, A. Bryan Endres, Jessica Guarino, Tyler Swanson, Suiwen Zou

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Abstract

This letter aims to illuminate the legal issues and challenges surrounding agritourism liability and agritourism legal definitions, which are overlooked in the tourism literature. By demonstrating a lack of a clear and consistent agritourism definition and its impacts on liability exemption laws in the US, we discuss the legal and industry-wide complications surrounding an ambiguous definition and argue that this ambiguity may discourage agritourism expansion and operation sustainability, lead to inequity among various forms of agritourism businesses, and undermine agritourism visitors’ right.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Current Issues in Tourism
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2024.2378971
State	Accepted/In press - 2024

Keywords

Tort law
agritourism operation
immunity laws
liability exemption
negligence theory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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