Tasting Tourism : Travelling for Food and Drink.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- New Directions in Tourism Analysis Series .
- New Directions in Tourism Analysis Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Food and Drink, From Past to Present -- 2 Food and Drink Become a Leisure Destination -- 3 Food for Thought and Visit -- 4 Ripe Time for Providers -- 5 Initiative and Opinion -- 6 Production and Display Centres and Venues -- 7 Outlets and Markets -- 8 Accommodation -- 9 Feeding and Drinking -- 10 Special Events and Devices, and Resources for Education -- 11 The Wine Dimension -- 12 From Among the Cornucopia -- 13 The Crop Now, and For Sowing in Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture. Similarly, culture guides how tourism is used and operates. Offering a range of international case studies, this book examines food and drink tourism, as it is now and is likely to develop, through a cultural 'lens'. It asks: what is food and drink tourism? and why have food and drink provisions and information points become tourist destinations in their own right, rather than remaining among a number of tourism features and components?.