Culinary Tourism and its Link to Cultural Tourism: Importance and Benefits

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
Discuss what is culinary tourism into critical manner and in which manner it links to the
tourism at cultural level and about its importance and related benefits as well. ........................4
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Tourism basically refers to the cultural, social, and economic phenomenon that entails the
movement of people to places or countries which is outside their usual environment for business
or personal purposes. Tourism is basically all about the process and act of spending time away
from home in the pursuit of relaxation, recreation and pleasure while making use of services
provision(Tussyadiah and Pesonen., 2016). Tourism is very important for the success of many
economies on the world wide basis. There are various benefits of tourism which basically boosts
the revenue of an economy, develops the infrastructure of a country, creates lots of jobs and also
plants the cultural exchange between citizens and foreigners. In the present report, an essay is
taken into consideration which is named as discuss what is culinary tourism into critical manner
and in which manner it links to the tourism at cultural level and about its importance and related
benefits as well. The present report will cover discussion about the tourism, culinary tourism and
also about the cultural tourism. In addition to this, the report will cover discussion about
connection between cultural and culinary tourism. Moreover, the report will cover analysis about
benefits of culinary tourism and also about the importance of culinary tourism.
MAIN BODY
Discuss what is culinary tourism into critical manner and in which manner it links to the tourism
at cultural level and about its importance and related benefits as well.
Tourism can be defined as the practice and theory of touring which is for the purpose of
business or travel and also the business of accommodating, attracting and entering the tourists as
well. It is a kind of cultural, social and economic phenomenon that entails the movement of
people to places or countries which is outside the usual environment for business or professional
purposes. From the perspective of international tourism which had become one of the world's
most significant economic activities by the early 21st century(Cavagnaro and et.al., 2018). Their
impact has became increasingly apparent from Arctic to Antarctica. Tourism has become one of
the important player in international commerce and also represents at the same time as one of the
core income source for many developing countries. This growth has been seen from this
perspective that it has increased diversification and also have major level of competition among
destinations.

This kind of global spread of tourism in developed and industrialised states has produce
higher level of industrialised and developed states which has produced employment and
economic benefits in different related sectors. The level of contribution to tourism also depends
on this factor of economic well-being into context of quality and revenues of the tourism offer.
According to the World tourism organisation of the United Nations, it is basically about the
different tourism which is focused on industries which normally offers tourism characteristic
products and services(Tolkach and et.al., 2016). UNWTO also defined the twelve tourism
industries which can be said to be serving to the tourists into general form. These industries
basically include accommodation for services, food and beverage serving activities, road
passenger transport, railway passenger transport, air passenger transport, water passenger
transport.
In addition to this, it includes transport equipment rental, cultural activities, travel
agencies, sports and recreational activities, travel agencies, retail trade of country specific
tourism characteristic goods and other country specific tourism characteristic activities. Tourism
industry is basically the large group of these mentioned industries which provides different range
of services and product which is focused on serving the needs of visitors or travellers. This
industry is important because due to its role in the form of commercial activity which creates
growth and demand for many industries. Tourism not only contributes towards activities at
economic level but also generates revenue, employment and also has significant role in terms of
development. It is that industry which creates demand at the initial level in the form of activity
and then fulfils the demand as the group of industries. Within this industry, tourists comes from
different countries and carry the perception and image about the country and shares it to many
other people as well.
There are different types of tourism which includes recreational tourism, environmental
tourism, historical tourism, cultural tourism, ethnic tourism, adventure tourism, culinary tourism
and health tourism(Oliveira and et.al., 2020). Culinary tourism basically refers to aim on food as
an attraction for destination and exploration for tourism. Culinary tourism is also known as the
gastronomy tourism or food tourism which is a kind of exploration of food as the purpose of
tourism. It is basically considered as the important component of the experience of tourism.