Gastronomic Tourism as a Motor of Local and Regional Development

T Lopez-Guzman, J.m Hernandez-Mogollon and E Di Clemente

Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 14, issue 1, 95-104

Abstract: Gastronomy is becoming one of the key pull factors to define the competitiveness of tourist destinations and to respond to the desires of a kind of traveler increasingly identified with the search for authenticity. The aim of this paper is to present an approach to gastronomy as a key element in the development (and consolidation) of tourist destinations. We also discuss how food and cuisine is a main motivation to visit a certain place or, in our specific case, one of the main motivations for traveling to the city of Cáceres, Spain.

Keywords: Tourism; Cáceres; local development; motivation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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