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agritourism

noun

agritourism is a noun meaning “A form of tourism in which tourists stay in farms or agricultural villages, either to experience farm life, or as a base for exploring the countryside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-R-I-T-O-U-R-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does agritourism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A form of tourism in which tourists stay in farms or agricultural villages, either to experience farm life, or as a base for exploring the countryside

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is agritourism?

Agritourism appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Agritourism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense tourism in which tourists stay in farms:

LanguageWords
Frenchagritourisme
Portugueseagroturismo, agriturismo
Spanishagroturismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does agritourism come from?

By surface analysis, agri- + tourism. Possibly borrowed from or influenced by Romance cognates, such as Italian agriturismo, which may be attested earlier.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).