Culinary Tourism and its Link to Cultural Tourism

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
Critically discuss what culinary tourism is and how it links to cultural tourism, why it is
important and its holistic benefits....................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................10
Books & Journal:...........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The hospitality industry is rising with rise of competition in market. With rise of market
and customers demand, foods & beverages industry are specifically growing at higher scale. A
culture is defined as values, shared beliefs, and social behaviour of individuals reflecting society or
community. Tourism is defined activities of people moving from one place to another for both
personal & professional use (Amerta, 2018). In this industry, culture, values, are often considered
as important part because hotels, restaurants provides, these services after analysing the
geographical social variables. The development of tourism is widening & which is giving rise to
more opportunities. Both these expand the economy status of country at larger level. Main aim of
this essay is to understand the tourism sector how it impacts upon industry & provide benefits. This
report comprises of history of culinary tourism & its link to cultural tourism with holistic benefits.
Critically discuss what culinary tourism is and how it links to cultural tourism, why it is important
and its holistic benefits
The tourism sector is wider and broader and is developing at rapid scale with new areas.
Traditional & modern foods both are being focused by customers at all aspects. In U.K & Britain
most of revenues and profit is generated through hospitality, foods & tourism industry. These all
three sectors are inter- linked with each other because they focuses on customers & provide them
quality of services to fulfil their needs & demands. The culture of every country is different from
each other and accordingly services are provided by market. The tourism industry is responsible for
, attracting more customers, tourists for attraction and this leads to profitable for hospitality
industry as they are able to provide foods services to them at wider scale. Culinary tourism- It is
defined as tourism in which food is being explored with authentic cuisine by experiencing the
traditional foods & living in a place where food is present. This kind of tourism is often considered
to be more expensive than experiencing normal foods places. WFTA which is also known as World
Food Travel Association has defined as culinary tourism as unique of experiencing the food places.
According to WFTA, most of culinary tourists prefer or say take interest in local food culture to
access the unique experience (Duralia, 2017). For example- in Europe, culinary tourism are like
cooking with locals, food & drink tour trails, eating at local homes, street foods, visiting to farm
orchards, markets, fairs etc. History of culinary tourism is being a major study which depicts how
it changes and originated from earliest times of tourism sector. Traditionally, a cuisine reflects the
country they originated from. When visiting to country or locations, the tourists often has a mindset
of getting a taste of local foods, drinks, beverages etc. While selecting this tourism planning is
being made by visitors in which they first decide to choose country & then chooses the sub
destination where they can find traditional foods at various places. The range of foods, drinks is

wider globally such as British fish n chips are typically to isle's charm. It is analysed that this
tourism comprises of sharing of eating habits of several types of cultures, races etc. which nurture
the sort of global visiting or exploration. Many people are often have a curiosity or say urge of
eating sampling of cuisine. The history depicts that cuisine & wine are being considered as major
attractions for people. In reference to this, planning to this tourism is difficult when main is to try
alien dish. Enthusiasm of visitors place makes it difficult to do planning properly for visitors.
Moreover while visiting to traditional food places, tourists took safety measures of their health so
that they does not get affected by external situations. Budget of this is mostly cost expensive
because it took time to search a place, local foods, which is create expenditure for individual.
Cuisine of every country is being focused by individual because they find appropriate level of taste,
exploration of foods which increase their enthusiasms level at higher pace. It depends upon a
tourists which type of culinary they prefer mostly (Elbaz, 2017). Culinary tourism represents an
emerging element of tourism industry & encompasses all the traditional values associated with the
new trends in tourism: respect for culture and tradition, authenticity and sustainability. By statistics
of Europe food culture, it is being stated that tourist spend huge amount or say over a fourth of
their tourism budget on foods, drinks etc. This is also analysed that European often are focused
about their health & safety measures accordingly they visit to food places. Culinary tourism is
linked to cultural tourism because they both carry out their activities by focusing on cultures.
Cultural tourisms are those which are concerned with tourists engaged with region's culture.
Whereas culinary tourisms tourists are concerned with engaging with visiting foods & beverages
places to explore their traditional style. Yes, they both are inter- linked with each other as because
they focuses on tradition of cultures, foods & lifestyle. In tourism sector, it is necessary to focus on
country or customers culture so that places are visited by tourists accordingly. Further, it is also
stated that in United Kingdom. Culture play important role in developing relationship, accessing
new opportunities, places, value at broader scale. Also, the tourism sector generates revenue of 106
billion to British economy & provide 2.6 million jobs across the country. This is the reason why
these both are important to adapt so that profitability and economy gets developed at rapid scale.
Impact of tourism on country is being wider & is widening the scope of sector which is beneficial
for U.K. Overall growth. The tourism industry has positive impact on supplying of resources,
foods, beverages etc. as demands of these enhances at rapid scale. Then, another positive effect is
that it prices of local shops increases at higher level as more tourists visits to shops, market &
which results in rise in business of SME'S (Hribar, 2017). Also, further effect is more profit &
money is generated when tourism sector rises & that money can be used for protection of natural
habitat. Moreover, in viewpoint of Europe, due to large combined natural as well as attractiveness
they are focusing & developing more market of foods, local streets foods & beverages. Further, by