What we know of food tourism: Systematic review of the literature using informetric analysis and directions for future research
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Handbook on Food Tourism
First Page
288
Last Page
306
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
65013
Abstract
Much attention has been devoted to food tourism phenomena globally in the past decade. Despite recent events such as Russia’s war with Ukraine and the consequent sanctions, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic effect on international tourism, it is encouraging to see that the food tourism literature has shown unprecedented growth since 2019. There are multiple literature reviews available on this expanding topic which provide various insights and perspectives into the literature. However, to date there has not been an overarching multidisciplinary perspective on the entire food tourism scholarship using unbiased and robust algorithms from bibliometric insights. Using the established scientometric and informetric methods, this chapter maps out the literature into three interrelated clusters – (i) food tourism varieties, boundaries, and implications, (ii) food tourism experience and destination marketing, and (iii) gastronomic tourism and regional development. The scholarly findings are then compared with mass media or stakeholder-oriented publications to identify five key interwoven directions for future research in this important scholarship.
DOI
10.4337/9781803924175.00030
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Park, E., Kim, S., & Klarin, A. (2024). "Chapter 20: What we know of food tourism: systematic review of the literature using informetric analysis and directions for future research". In Handbook on Food Tourism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924175.00030