Festivals, Culinary Tourism And Food Festivals

Camp #1: One group of authors are motivated to travel to investigate cultures and for their own self betterment. This group of authors travel and record their experiences to share them with those who are unable to do as they do due to the reader’s circumstances or mindsets towards travel. These authors defend travel to be a positive experience and corrects the false assumptions that travel is dangerous and only there for crocked tourism schemes.

A festival is a celebration of life. Festival is harmonious, rich, varied and colorful. A festival is a celebration which breaks the tedium of life. They bring peace and joy to the multitudes. Festival provide as symbol to the cultural, social and domestic life of the people. There are different kinds of festivals celebrated around this world. There are festivals based on legends or persons believed to be blessed with supernatural powers. It is a belief that by praying legends you get the gratuity of wishes and avoiding off troubles. Another kind of festival celebrated is Religious festivals. Religious festivals are celebrated with

While many problems are associated with International tourism, it can still offer some advantages. For one thing, International tourism can open job opportunities for the native citizens. To demonstrate, when tourists visit an area, the vast majority of them don’t have a clue on

Music festivals were created as a way for people to temporarily escape from the world's conflict. Throughout the decades, festivals continued to grow in popularity and new festivals were created.

When it comes to the logistical elements of the event, attendees at the Calgary series are more satisfied with all the logistical aspects, compared with the attendees

for tourist, from lavish resorts to historical places. Travelling to learn about a culture is rewarding compare in spending time

History: pilgrimages, the grand tours, post industrial revolution, post war, current; factors facilitating growth eg technology, time, money, freedom of movement, infrastructure, social conditions; possible future developments eg sustainability Travel and tourism sector: travel services; tourism services; conferences and events; visitor attractions; accommodation services; passenger transport; relationships and links, levels of integration; Liepers tourist system, chain of distribution; private, public and voluntary sectors

Tourism is one of the most exciting and progressive industries in the world. Tourism today is a leisure activity of the masses. People travel to international destinations to break the regular monotony of life. They are mainly attracted by either the scenic beauty of its nature or by fascinating leisure, sports and adventure activities offered by the destination. However, every destination has some internal strengths and weaknesses that either enhance its capacity to attract foreign visitors or diminish it. Similarly the external environment can create various opportunities or exposed to threats as well.

3.1Evaluate the suitability of a range of food production systems and styles and food and beverage service styles for a given conference or banquet

Since the beginning of human civilization in the world, travelling has been an ongoing event. The early humans travelled for hunting and food gathering. Later, as society evolved, travelling became more prominent but became limited to trade, pilgrimage, studies, migration, royal affairs and exploration, rather than for pleasure and entertainment. From this knowledge it is evident that travelling is part of human nature but tourism is a process and activities of a new and moderately recent phenomenon. The evolution of tourism can be divided into three phases.

As part of learning outcomes for Managing Service Quality class, we need to critically assess and identify services issues regarding their customer satisfaction of a hospitality organization of our choice.

No matter which country you live in, festivals are unavoidable. For as long as people have lived together in communities, it seems we have had a desire to celebrate together as a group. Festival celebrations take place in all cultures, all over the globe and for lots of different reasons. Religion, music, food – all these and more have inspired festivals new and old. Whether you love culture, or you’re just looking to party, there’s a festival out there for everyone. Festival is a party and party really isn’t much of a party without food and drink, and people have been celebrating with delicious grub for centuries. Closely tied to the seasons, many food-based festivals traditionally take place at harvest time, when farmers reap their crops and there is plenty of food to share. And this lead to one of my favorite festival La Tomatina; a festival that has been on my bucket list for quite sometimes. I want to take this opportunity to share what I have learned about this overwhelming festival over the years. So fasten your seat belt because I'm about to take you on a ride to “world’s largest food fight”.

Tourism in a free market economy can exploit natural resources as a means of a profit accumulation, and therefore has been described as the commercialisation of the human need to travel. The notion of unlimited gain has led to exploitation of host communities, their cultures, and environments. (Walker, 2011)

Conversely, there is the opposite view that intercultural encounters are less desired by tourists that often assume that a country owns only natural resources like beaches and parks. They visit the country and return without the knowledge of the country’s culture, traditions, customs, lifestyles, and political aspirations of the host country. This lack of interest is mainly due to the image-making brochures of the tour-operators who, motivated by high profits, will display only things like beaches, luxurious hotels and resorts, cruise ships, and so on. The tour guides are often culturally ill-prepared for their mediating function and are oriented towards

Service quality represents a fundamental aspect of delivery, which strongly influences consumer satisfaction and, as a result, loyalty. In today’s global market a customer’s service expectation has to be met and exceeded eventually in order to retain customers as well as achieve success. Perceived quality of a product or a service is becoming one of the major competitive factors in the business world and has led to the innovation of the ‘Quality Era’ (Peeler, 1996). In simple words, the comparison of customer expectations with service performance is service quality. On the other hand, customer satisfaction is defined as a pleasurable fulfilment response toward a good, service, benefit, or reward (Oliver, 1997). Both of these