What are the characteristics of gourmet tourism?

Gourmet tourism is a relatively new form of tourism. A tourism activity with social and leisure attributes, which takes enjoying and experiencing food as the main body and seeks aesthetic pleasure in different places, is called gourmet tourism.

Gourmet, Tourism and Tourism Gourmet

Gourmet tourism is a kind of tourism, and it is an enjoyable process with "gourmet" as the attraction. Tourist food is a delicious food tasted during the trip, which can be a small, light and novel tourist snack carried along the way, or a delicious meal. Tourist food is an important part of food tourism.

Food tourism and food culture tourism

Food culture tourism can be considered as food tourism in a narrow sense. Food culture tourism focuses on "culture", which refers to the combination of food culture and tourism activities, with understanding food culture and tasting food as the main content, and is a high-level tourism activity. Because people's understanding and understanding of "beauty" are very different, "food" presents rich and colorful colors in content and form. Rich and strong food culture content is a necessary condition for developing food tourism, and food tourism is an inevitable trend and result of the development of food culture tourism.

Gourmet, tourism and tourism catering

Tourism catering refers to the catering behavior in the process of tourism, while food tourism is a tourism process with food as the attraction. These two concepts refer to different types of behaviors respectively, but both occur during the journey and are related to the catering behavior of tourists. However, food tourism includes not only the catering process, but also other participatory activities related to food, such as cooking competitions, beer festivals and fruit festivals. Tourism catering pays more attention to tourists' catering behavior and quality, such as food safety, hygiene and nutrition.

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regional

China is a vast country. Due to the differences in geographical environment, climate, products, politics, economy, national customs and religious beliefs, the dietary characteristics of various regions and ethnic groups are varied and colorful. The "eight major cuisines" are formed by the overall differences in regional environment. With their unique cooking skills and different styles of dishes, they have become an important scenic spot and an indispensable part of tourism resources. It is this difference in the regional distribution of tourism resources that forms the spatial flow of gourmet tourists, which is the fundamental reason why people achieve aesthetic and pleasant purposes in the form of tourism.

originality

Although food tourism is regional, food can be recreated in different places. However, food tourism has left its origin. With the changes of natural environment and human environment, the "food" enjoyed during the tourism process is different. This regional feature of tourism resources endows a country or region with a monopoly position on this kind of resources, which makes simple imitation can not be compared with ontology tourism resources. And in order to meet the market demand, local cuisine has to make some adaptive improvements when leaving the source, which greatly reduces the travel experience of gourmet tourists. This is particularly evident in Beijing. In Beijing, a place where people all over the country gather, there are almost all restaurants with local flavor. Therefore, although there are many theme parks with ethnic customs, they lack the support of regional environment, surrounding environment and ethnic customs, which is clear from the truth in the eyes of tourists. Therefore, the regionality of food tourism can highlight the originality of food tourism.

nationality

Because gourmet tourists live in different cultural backgrounds, their tourism needs are naturally influenced by cultural factors, which also affects the value judgment of gourmet tourists on tourism resources. Tourists living in different areas have different understanding and pursuit of food. Gourmet tourism is a combination of culture and diet, because diet and culture are integrated, infiltrated and inseparable. Different countries and nationalities have great differences in food culture, so many scholars divide food tourism into folk customs and national cultural tourism resources, which are often summarized as an important part of humanistic tourism resources.

The Times

The demand of gourmet tourists changes in different times, so the evaluation of gourmet food varies with different times. In the early days of reform and opening up, people's psychology of seeking novelty was relatively heavy, which was a reflection of enjoying excitement and seeking for taste differences. In the 1990s, the pursuit of nutrition, nourishing and health care, the pursuit of the wild, the pursuit of foreign countries and the pursuit of supplements became popular. After SARS, the wind of seeking green land rose again. The evaluation of food is different, and the mainstream food in different times is different, so the theme of food tourism has changed a lot.

Participatory

The participation of gourmet tourism is much stronger than other types of tourism. First of all, the most important travel experience of gourmet tourism is tasting, which is both tangible and intangible. This participation directly affects the duration and quality of the whole tour, so the tour experience is more important for food tourists, and it also puts forward higher requirements for food tourism itself. Secondly, other participatory activities of food tourism, such as watching cooking competitions, tea performances, learning to cook Chinese food, etc., can arouse the strong imitation desire of food tourists. These operational and rich tourism activities can easily prolong the interest duration of gourmet tourists.