Olive oil tourism and touristics routes in the Buenos Aires´southwest (Argentina)

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JORGELINA LOCATELLI
SILVINA R. ELÍAS

Abstract

In the southwest of Buenos Aires province and specifically, in Coronel Dorrego district it´s produced a high quality extra virgin olive oil mainly due to the district´s natural environment. The district has more than 80% of the oil mills that are located in the región and of olive´s implanted territory of the Buenos Aires district´s southwest. Likewise, olive activity at present is being linked, through several iniciatives, to tourism. Moreover, it´s being developing in this region the olive route, which provides lot of activities related to olives, linking agriculture to tourism.  This paper intends to describe initially the different types of touristic routes by then analize the olive route mentioned before. It is mainly intended to determine whether in this area it´s being developing a food route becoming in an incipient touristic product.


Keywords: olive oil tourism, country tourism, touristics routes, food routes, Buenos Aires´southwest, Coronel Dorrego, Olive Route.

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LOCATELLI, J., & ELÍAS, S. R. (2022). Olive oil tourism and touristics routes in the Buenos Aires´southwest (Argentina). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM, BUSINESS AND TERRITORY, 6(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.21071/riturem.v6i1.14030
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JORGELINA LOCATELLI, National University of the South (UNS). Argentina

Professor at the National University of the South (Argentina). Department of Economics.

SILVINA R. ELÍAS, National University of the South (UNS). Argentina.

Professor at the National University of the South, Department of Economics. Institute of Economic and Social Research of the South (UNS-CONICET), Argentina.