Gastronomy Tourism - A Sustainable Alternative for Local Economic Development

Iulian Adrian Sorcaru
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Iulian Adrian Sorcaru: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2019, issue 1, 103-110

Abstract: Gastronomy tourism recorded a continuous worldwide increase in recent decades, reflected both by the multitude of niche tourist offers and also by the emergence of the food websites and national and international institutions. In this context, the study aims to present the basic characteristics and importance of gastronomy tourism for local economic development, the profile of the culinary tourism consumer, as well as the evolution, the thematic map and the size of tourism flows in a few regions known as European Regions of Gastronomy, in which the actions and objectives undertaken at the local level have as main purpose the promotion of local gastronomy and traditions that increase the international tourism visibility and implicitly the local economic development.

Keywords: Gastronomy tourism; Economic development; European Regions of Gastronomy; Inbound tourist flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.35219/eai1584040912

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