Challenges faced by Food Tourism of UK during

Challenges faced by Food Tourism of UK during Internationalization
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1/2/2020

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Food Tourism...................................................................................................................................3
Key issues of Food Tourism............................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Suggestions......................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Tourism is traveling for leisure or company, where tourist industry philosophy and action, the
company of attracting, receiving, and entertaining visitors, and the company of tour operations
(Kennell, and Chaperon, 2013). The World Tourism Organization describes tourism more
broadly, in terms beyond the common view of tourism as being restricted to holiday operation
only, as travelers to and remaining in locations beyond their normal setting for not more than one
successive year for recreation, company and other reasons. It is usually related to hospitality
industry, were the tourism hotels, food and services are offered by companies. The hospitality
industry is a broad concept of service sector fields which includes accommodation, beverage
service, event management, theme parks, accommodation, cruise line, rail, airline, and adjacent
tourism industry sectors (Heasman, and Morley, 2017). There are many sectors or themes present
within the tourism and hospitality industry like food, travel, entertainment, tourism innovation
and technology and many more. In this study the challenges faced by food tourism, which is one
of the major sectors of hospitality and tourism industry of UK, are discussed and analysed with
the help of published reports and data in scholarly articles and newspapers (Sims, 2010).
Food Tourism
Hospitality industry is very vast which included multiple types of themes within it like food and
beverages, entertainment, tourism, etc. in this study one of the themes of hospitality industry of
UK is identified and discussed with the references to key issues faced by it in the global tourism
and hospitality world. For this purpose, the food tourism of UK is analysed in this study. Food
tourism is about discovering food as a tourism intent. It is now deemed a vital part of the
background of tourism (Janson, 2017). Dining out is popular among visitors and it is assumed
that food is important to tourists as well as the environment, accommodation as well as scenery.
According to World Food Travel Association, food tourism is the act where the tourists travel in
getting the taste of the place. In this study the food industry of UK is discussed, where the food
serving hotels, restaurants, chefs, etc are analysed with the view of issues faced by them in
reaching global markets.
The food tourism of UK is getting its pace fast day by day. In fact, in the time of peak season
where there is abundance of tourists the food tourism also increases (Kusluvan, Kusluvan, Ilhan,
and Buyruk, 2010). In UK Nutrition is now a major motivation for the choice of destinations for