Food and Agricultural Tourism

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism, offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food tourism and the role it plays in economic development, destination marketing, and gastronomic exploration. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline by considering food tourism in connection with both cultural values and important issues in agriculture, food consumption and safety, and rural heritage and sustainability. Complemented by a wide range of international case studies, key definitions and study questions, this is an essential reading for students of tourism, geography and economic development studies.