Introduction: The endless journey through our imagined curiosities, our tasteful stories
Abstract
Food tourism is within the cultural system, and partly contributes to shaping our social world. Food tourism research is therefore about questioning and understanding the (close) relationships between people, place, and food. However, the past and recent surging tourism research on food (tourism) still evolves from the concepts of consumer choices or behaviours and consumable cultural items of visited destinations. It is timely to rethink, reframe, and broaden our understanding of food tourism research in terms of its scope and disciplinary approach. In this introductory chapter, the editors highlight that this handbook aims to provide an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of research traditions, perspectives, and issues and concerns on the food tourism phenomenon in various research contexts by leveraging multidisciplinary approaches to food tourism. This handbook, consisting of four parts, is intrinsically designed to develop the historical and anthropological understanding of the nexus between food, society, and tourism that underpins the current divergent business and marketing efforts in all tourism areas. This collection covering the breadth and depth of food tourism research would benefit a wide audience ranging from students to (early career) researchers of food tourism to researchers in wider food and tourism studies.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
3-12-2024
Publication Title
Handbook on Food Tourism
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
65016
Copyright
free_to_read
First Page
1
Last Page
16
Comments
Park, E., & Kim, S. (2024). "Chapter 1: Introduction: the endless journey through our imagined curiosities, our tasteful stories". In Handbook on Food Tourism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924175.00007