Survey on holiday-home owners and local food

Are you a holiday-home owner in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River or in the Shire of Denmark? This study will assist UWA researchers on ‘The pursuit of sustainable countryside: Could holiday-home tourism complement multifunctional agriculture?’ By completing this form you will help UWA to understand whether the holiday-home tourists’ demand for food products may contribute to the diversification of the local agricultural production in rural areas of Western Australia.

The study is being undertaken by UWA Visiting Researcher, Associate Professor Adam Czarnecki and Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Centre for Regional Development, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. It takes only 15 minutes to fill the form in. Useful information along with details of the researchers involved in can be accessed by respondents via the survey. The survey is only for research purposes and all the data collected are kept anonymous.

Aim of the study The University of Western Australia is hosting Associate Professor – Adam Czarnecki from the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN) as a Visiting Scholar from May 2019 to April 2020. His research, supported by the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), examines second-home tourism and its relationships with the local (host-community) economy and specifically agriculture. The main purpose of the study, to be carried out in two case-communities of WA (Margaret River and Denmark), is to examine whether second-home tourism – through holiday-home owners’) purchases, preferences and willingness to pay for various goods provided by agriculture – may contribute to the diversification of the local agricultural production and, consequently, to support sustainable development in WA rural communities.