Explaining Culinary Tourism and Its Links with Cultural Tourism and Its Importance

TLH 334 GASTRONOMY

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explaining culinary tourism and it links with cultural tourism and its importance.....................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The study of food and culture by having the particular focus on the gourmet cuisine is
known as gastronomy. This includes the new cooking techniques, nutritional facts, science
related to food, etc. The food culture is very important as it includes the different practices,
attitudes and network that helps to have the production, distribution and consumption of food. As
people from the different background used to eat the different type of food as food culture is
different of every background. The report will include the meaning of the culinary tourism and
its links with the cultural tourism. Further this will also outline the importance of having the
cultural tourism and its holistic benefits.
MAIN BODY
Explaining culinary tourism and it links with cultural tourism and its importance
Tourism refers to the social, cultural and the economic phenomenon which used to have
the movement of the people to the different countries and places for business or personal
purpose. The tourism can be domestic or they can be international that used have incoming and
outgoing effect on the country. There are basically four type of tourism which are sustainable
tourism, food tourism, wellness tourism and experimental tourism (Wijaya, 2019). Culinary
Tourism is used to have focus on the food by having the attraction in order to explore and have a
destination for tourism. This is basically the exploration of food for making the tourist satisfied
by having the variety of food. By having the tourism it helps the country to have growth and
boost in the economic activities, helps in infrastructure development, increases gross domestic
product, etc. of the country. The culinary tourism is considered as the crucial component of the
tourism experience. For the tourist the dining out is common for them and they also want the
food by having the good climate, accommodations ans sceneries which makes them feel good
while having day or night out. The culinary tourism has become in existence in year 2001 after
Erik Wolf who was the president of the World Food Travel Association. This is considered to be
important, unique and memorable eating and drinking experiences for the people (Duarte Alonso
and Kiat Kok, 2021). There is the difference between the culinary tourism and agritourism as
culinary used to focus on the cultural tourism while agritourism used to have focus on rural
tourism. But both these tourisms used to have focus on the food culture in order to attract the
people and make them to have memorable experiences in food and drinking. The culinary
tourism is growing and having the market growth by having the rise in the unique and exotic