Food tourism and regional development : networks, products and trajectories / edited by C. Michael Hall and Stefan Gössling.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Introduction

1. Food Tourism and Regional Development: An Introduction
C. Michael Hall & Stefan Gössling

Part 2: Local Food Systems, Tourism and Trajectories of Regional Development

2. Value creation in sustainable food networks: The role of tourism

(Jan-Henrik Nilsson)

3. Developing regional food systems: A case study of restaurant-customer relationships in Sweden

(Stefan Gössling & C. Michael Hall)

4. Growing tourism from the ground up: Drivers of tourism development in agricultural regions

(Michelle Thompson & Bruce Prideaux)

5. The role of regional foods and food events in rural destination development: The case of Bario, Sarawak

(Samuel Adeyinka-Ojo & Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore)

6. Local foods, rural networks, and tourism development: A comparative study between Michigan, USA and the North Midlands, Ireland

(Cecilia Hegarty & Deborah Che)

Part 3: The Cultural Economy of Food and Tourism

7. Japanese obsession to noodles and regional development: The Udon Noodle tourism phenomenon in Japan

(Sangkyun Kim)

8. “Modernology”, food heritage and neighbourhood tourism: The example of Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

(Sidney C. H. Cheung & Jiting Luo)

9. Regional economic development through food tourism: The case of AsiO Gusto in Namyangju City, South Korea

(Timothy Lee & Jang-Hyun Nam)

10. Consuming the rural and regional: The evolving relationship between food and tourism

(Paul Cleave)

11. Food tourism and place identity in the development of Jamaica’s rural culture economy

(Ernest Taylor & Moya Kneafsey)

12. Gastronomy does not recognize political borders

(Marisa Ramos Abascal)

Part 4: Products, Regions and Regionality

13. Differences in wine tourism development: Description and illustrations from two Old World cases

(Elsa Gatelier)

14. Does regionality matter? The experience in Ireland

(John Mulcahy)

15. Craft beer, tourism and local development in South Africa

(Christian M. Rogerson)

16.Cheese Tourism: local produce with protected designation of origin in the region of Galicia, Spain

(Francesc Fusté Forné)

Part 5: Barriers and Constraints

17. Barriers and constraints in the use of local foods in the hospitality sector

(Hiran Roy, C. Michael Hall & Paul Ballantine)

18. Culinary collisions: The vision of local food use collides with daily restaurant practice

(Lotte Wellton, Inger M. Jonsson & Ute Walter)

Part 6: Conclusions

19 Conclusions: Food tourism and regional development - new localism or globalism?

(Stefan Gössling & C. Michael Hall)

Food tourism is a topic of increasing importance for many destinations. Seen as a means to potentially attract tourists and differentiate destinations and attractions by means of the association with particular products and cuisines, food is also regarded as an opportunity to generate added value from tourism through local agricultural systems and supply chains and the local food system.

From a regional development perspective this book goes beyond culinary tourism to also look at some of the ways in which the interrelationships between food and tourism contribute to the economic, environmental and social wellbeing of destinations, communities and producers. It examines the way in which tourism and food can mutually add value for each other from the fork to the plate and beyond. Looking at products, e.g. cheese, craft beer, noodles, wine; attractions, restaurants and events; and diverse regional examples, e.g. Champagne, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Margaret River, southern Sweden, and Tuscany; the title highlights how clustering, networking and the cultural economy of food and tourism and foodscapes adds value for regions. Despite the attention given to food, wine and culinary tourism no book has previously directly focused on the contribution of food and tourism in regional development. This international collection has contributors and examples from almost every continent and provides a comprehensive account of the various intersections between food tourism and regional development.

This timely and significant volume will inform future food and tourism development as well as regional development more widely and will be valuable reading for a range of disciplines including tourism, development studies, food and culinary studies, regional studies, geography and environmental studies.