Author Identifier
Eerang Park: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-7128
Sangkyun Kim: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-9952
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Tourism Geographies
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
School of Business and Law
Abstract
This paper provides a state-of-the-art critical review of past and current food tourism scholarship and offers key insights and directions to establish a more comprehensive perspective on the field. The food tourism scholarship evolved, transformed, and progressed from earlier intellectual discussions and scholarly discourses on ‘food in tourism’. Through a rapid transition from ‘food in tourism’ to ‘food for tourism’ and ‘tourism for food’ as the current status quo, this paper proposes four directions for future food tourism research. These are: the application of contextualism philosophy with particular attention to the localities and peculiarities of emerging and/or new food tourism geographies, the accumulated experiences of food tourists in a holistic manner from a food cultural capital perspective, the alternative and sustainable foods and foodways regarding ongoing discourses of overtourism and degrowth, and the hypermobility concept of food travel and tourism. As such, the future of research directions, perspectives, issues, and concerns are plural and multifaceted.
DOI
10.1080/14616688.2024.2423164
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES on 8th November, 2024, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14616688.2024.2423164
Park, E., & Kim, S. (2024). ‘Still hungry, not enough’: The past, present, and future of food tourism scholarship. Tourism Geographies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2423164