Gastronomy and Culinary Tourism: Exploring the Link with Cultural Tourism

Gastronomy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Culinary Tourism.........................................................................................................................3
Link of Culinary Tourism with Cultural Tourism.......................................................................5
Importance of Culinary Tourism.................................................................................................6
Holistic benefits of Culinary Tourism.........................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Gastronomy is concerned with study of food and culture and in this particular focus is
placed on gourmet cuisine. Gastronomy term also incorporates cooking techniques, facts related
to nutrition and food science. Further Gastronomy involves discovering, tasting, experiencing,
researching, understanding and writing about preparation process of food and sensory qualities
of human nutrition as a complete. Gastronomy also studies how nutrition has link with broader
culture. Merriam-webster defines gastronomy as art and science of good eating. This essay will
discuss about culinary tourism and how culinary tourism is linked with cultural tourism and
along with importance and benefits of culinary tourism will also be discussed in essay. Culinary
term relates to the practice of cookery or activity relating to activity of cooking whereas
gastronomy is concerned with study of relationship between food and culture. Culinary tourism
is concerned with exploration of food as the purpose for tourism. Food exploration is considered
as vital component of tourism activities undertaken by individual.
MAIN BODY
Culinary Tourism
Culinary tourism also known as gastronomy or food tourism involves that during tourism
exploration of food remains as core and key purpose of tourism. During tourism food exploration
is very important and remains at central and dining out is very common in culinary tourism and
food is also ranked alongside climate, accommodation and scenery and this is important in
culinary tourism (Stone, Migacz and Wolf, 2019). Activities that are included in culinary or
gastronomic tourism involve cooking with locals, cooking workshops, eating at homes of local
people, and eating at local restaurants or street food. In other words, culinary tourism involves
that individuals primarily eat and cook local food and cuisine of the place where they have gone
in their tourism.
Every country and culture has different offerings in terms of food and food products and
culinary tourism focuses on exploration of these food products. However, culinary tourism
focuses on food products, gastro-tourism extends to food products and involves considering what
individuals eat. This further involves how individuals eat, where and when individuals eat and
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reason behind eating a particular food. Culinary tourism allows food tourists to taste different
types of food in order to learn details about food. For culinary tourists important motivation for
travel and tourism is food and it is centre of their tourism (Wijaya, 2019). Culinary Tourist keep
travelling to different food destinations and this track keeps going on. This is because for
culinary tourists they want to seek hands-on experience about food and seek to places where
food originated.
This specialised category of tourism is for food enthusiastic in which people go to taste
authentic cuisine from the place where it originated and through this they truly immerse
experience of living in that place through the food of that place. Food tourism involves food
dishes and also cheese, chocolates and local beverages. Food tourism however is for everyone
but for people in certain categories, food tourism is more popular (Denise Tan, 2021). These
categories and people in these categories involve professional chefs, wine connoisseurs and food
enthusiasts. Because of globalisation and prevalence of latest technology and social media has
contributed in considerable growth in food tourism. Social media has a special role in this
because it enables people to know information about food and their original places. Along with
this people also get influenced by other people in order to participate in culinary tourism
(Wijaya, 2019). The role of social media involves that people when are on culinary tourism this
year information about places and food and social media and this increases their friends and
followers to try it when they are in the country in future. With increasing use of social media as
most influential marketing method peer to peer dining apps are also getting popular. Peer to peer
learning apps applications where individuals can register as a host or as a guest and either cook
meal for their guest or get to eat homemade meal from the host (Stone, Migacz and Sthapit,
2021). This is very important and contributes in enhancing experience of culinary tourism in
which people become able to eat homemade food at the place where they are going and apps for
peer to peer dining help in identifying where individuals can get homemade meal when they are
in the city. This is how technology facilitated and enhanced culinary tourism experience for
individuals (Stone, Migacz and Wolf, 2019). Culinary tourism can be of different types and these
types are-
Dedicated food tours and experiences
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