Gastronomy, Tourism and the Media

This book challenges readers to look beyond the traditional food tourism approaches and offers a complete analysis of gastronomy tourism, from its roots to its impact on contemporary societies, including its media resonance. It is a well-researched and inventive book that provides a clear and concise overview for both academics and students interested in this increasingly attractive topic.

* Isabelle Frochot, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France *

This book is a 15 course feast that explores the multifaceted and complex relationship between gastronomy, tourism and the media. The authors have excelled in presenting a thought provoking and rich picture of how gastronomy is one of the key motivators for travel and how traditional and modern media have supported, encouraged and developed tourists’ fascination with a destination's food offering.

* Una McMahon-Beattie, Ulster University, UK *

This book is best described as providing both an interesting historic overview and an exploration of current issues concerning the developing and changing relationships between the three topics of gastronomy, tourism and media. As such, it provides a useful starting point for readers who want to explore tourism futures from a number of different perspectives, and through highlighting the interrelationships of these three topics, the book suggests some issues that tourism futurologists may want to explore.

-- Brian Hay, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 3 Issue 2 *

This book is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all your gastronomic needs, a grand buffet of information that will bring anyone up to speed on the discipline. With the birth of ‘food tourism’, formally known as culinary tourism, interest in what we eat has never been more centre stage in tourism destination development. (...) the authors of this book have baked a cake that not only looks great but has many complex depths of flavours that will appeal to those hungry to research gastronomy. Bon appetit!

-- Bill J. Gregorash, Confederation College, Canada * Tourism Management 61 (2017) 37-38 *

Within the sparse international library on offer for an interdisciplinary
research community, this text will make a solid and real contribution. It is
readable and packed full with useful examples and thus is a welcome addition
to ground and illustrate ongoing deliberation, discussion and digestion of
the role food (and drink) holds within both personal and public experiences
in the twenty-first century.

-- Eifiona Thomas Lane, Bangor University, UK * Hospitality & Society, Volume 7, Number