apitourism

alternative api-tourism

1. uncountableTourism involving bee-related activities, such as visiting an apiary.

   If apitourism sounds like a sweet idea, here are a few ideas to get you started.

   2016 July 25, Helen Truszkowski, “’Apitourism’ is a growing worldwide culture for bee-seeking travellers”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2024

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   Apitourism—tourists that visit other bee yards—has a good future, especially as more novices join the ranks and the beekeeping conferences continue to draw crowds. In surroundings such as Hawaii and California, apitourism can appeal to an emerging niche market in ecotourism. Apitourism also defines a new direction for beekeepers in other equally exotic places in the varied American landscape: the Rio Grande, the Appalachians, the Plains, the East Coast.

   2005, Tammy Horn, Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, Lexington, K.Y.: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 253