Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink

by Boniface,Priscilla

• ISBN13: 9780754635147
• ISBN10: 0754635147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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?

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Abbreviations	x
Food and Drink, From Past to Present	1	(14)
Food and Drink Become a Leisure Destination	15	(12)
Food for Thought and Visit	27	(12)
Ripe Time for Providers	39	(14)
Initiative and Opinion	53	(12)
Production and Display Centres and Venues	65	(14)
Outlets and Markets	79	(22)
Accommodation	101	(10)
Feeding and Drinking	111	(10)
Special Events and Devices, and Resources for Education	121	(10)
The Wine Dimension	131	(10)
From Among the Cornucopia	141	(12)
The Crop Now, and For Sowing in Future	153	(14)
Bibliography	167	(8)
Index	175