gourmet tourism is a relatively novel form of tourism. The tourism activities with social and leisure attributes, which seek aesthetic and pleasant experiences in different places and enjoy and experience food as the main body, are called gourmet tourism.

Gourmet Tourism and Tourism Gourmet

Gourmet tourism is a kind of tourism, and it is an enjoyment process with "gourmet" as an attraction. Tourist food is delicious food tasted in the process of traveling, which can be small, light and novel tourist snacks carried on the way of traveling, or a delicious meal to enjoy. Tourism food is an important part of food tourism.

food tourism and food culture tourism

food culture tourism can be regarded 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, which is a high-level tourism activity. Because people's understanding and understanding of "beauty" are very different, "food" presents 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 tourist catering

tourist catering refers to the catering behavior in the process of tourism, while gourmet tourism refers to the 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 not only includes the catering process, but also other participatory activities related to food, such as cooking competitions, beer festivals, fruit festivals, etc. Tourism catering pays more attention to tourists' catering behavior and catering quality, such as food safety, hygiene, nutrition, etc.

Characteristics

Regionality

China is a vast country. Due to the differences in geographical environment, climate, products, politics and economy, ethnic habits 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 attraction of gourmet tourism and an indispensable part of tourism resources. It is precisely this difference in regional distribution of tourism resources that forms the spatial flow of gourmet tourists, which is the fundamental reason for people to achieve aesthetic and pleasure purposes in the form of tourism.

originality

although food tourism is regional, food can be recreated in different places. However, food tourism leaves its origin, and with the change 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 a region with a monopoly on this kind of resources, which makes simple imitation unable to compare with ontology tourism resources. And in order to meet the market demand, local cuisine has to make some adaptive improvements when it leaves the source area, which greatly reduces the travel experience of gourmet tourists. This is particularly evident in Beijing. In Beijing, a place where people from all over the country gather, there are almost restaurants with local flavors. Therefore, although there are many theme parks with ethnic customs, they lack the support of regional environment, surrounding environment and ethnic customs, and in the eyes of tourists, there is a clear distinction between true and false. Therefore, the regionality of food tourism can highlight the originality of food tourism.

nationality

because gourmet tourists live in different cultural backgrounds, their travel needs are naturally influenced by cultural factors, which also affects their value judgment of tourism resources. Tourists living in different regions have different understandings and pursuits of food. Gourmet tourism is a combination of culture and diet, because diet and culture are integrated, infiltrated and inseparable. The food culture of different countries and ethnic groups is quite different, so many scholars classify food tourism into folk customs and ethnic cultural tourism resources, which are often summarized as an important part of humanistic tourism resources.

epochal

The demands of gourmet tourists change in different times, so the evaluation of gourmet food varies with the times. In the early days of reform and opening up, people's psychology of seeking novelty and novelty was relatively heavy, which was a reflection of enjoying excitement and seeking differences in taste. In the 1991s, 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 and soil is blowing again. The evaluation of food is different, and the mainstream food in each era is different, so the theme of food tourism has changed greatly.

Participation

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 kind of participation directly affects the length of the whole tour and the quality of the tour, so the tour experience is more important for the gourmet tourists, and it also puts forward higher requirements for the gourmet tourism itself. Secondly, other participatory activities of food tourism, such as watching cooking competitions, tea performances and learning to cook Chinese food, can arouse the strong imitation desire of food tourists. These highly operational and rich tourism activities can easily prolong the duration of food tourists' interest.