Gastronomy Tourism

Abstract

Gastronomic tourism is a unique type of travel activity that includes sampling dishes that are representative of the region's cuisine. This study is based on a conceptual method which analyses concepts to understand them better by focusing on gastronomy tourism in terms of concepts, segmentations, and developments. The current chapter attempts to synthesize the concept of gastronomy tourism after reviewing various literature. The chapter reveals that the concept of gastronomy tourism is evolving and changing over time, and it is also going through a phase of segmentation and growth for both tourism and local economies. It has been found that there is a need for detailed empirical studies in gastronomy tourism to have a strong conceptualization of this broad topic. As gastronomy tourism is a relatively complex idea and area of the travel industry, future research will need to take a postmodern and multidisciplinary approach. This chapter explains the theory of gastronomy tourism.