10 Step Guide to Food Tourism Destination Development

25 June 2019

The much anticipated 10-Step Guide To Food Tourism Destination Development is now ready. Please note that by “food tourism”, we also mean culinary tourism, beverage tourism, gastronomy tourism and turismo gastronómico. This Guide serves everyone involved in our industry, including destinations, governments, travel agencies, tour operators, tourist guides, and all other small business owners who are vital to the development or survival of a Food Lover’s Destination.

In the Guide, we’ve outlined herein the basic steps you need to follow to either develop your emerging food-lover destination, or to refine the steps that you are already taking as an existing food-lovers’ destination. As you have come to expect from the world’s leading authority on food and beverage tourism, the Guide is written in plain everyday language, without confusing tables of data, boring graphs or hard-to-understand terminology. The Guide is easy to understand and implement for destinations of every size, located anywhere in the world.

Update July 2020: The guide is no longer available for download.

Update August 2021: A new guide is being developed. Check news posts for an announcement when it is ready for downloading.

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