IMPORTANCE OF GASTRONOMY TOURISM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZWN3EKeywords:
Tourism industry, Restaurants, Food and Beverage, Healthy food, National and European food.Abstract
Gastronomy has appeared like an indispensable element in order to get to know the culture and lifestyle of a destination and so embodies all the traditional values associated with the new trends in tourism: respect for culture and tradition, a healthy lifestyle, authenticity, sustainability, experience… etc.. This leading role of gastronomy when choosing a travel destination has resulted in the growth of gastronomic offer based on high quality local products and the consolidation of a separate market for food tourism. Provided that everything mentioned above constitutes the main reason or motivation to travel for visitors to a particular destination or at least on significant motivation.
