Besides of clarifying pull factors, this research explores perspectives of international tourists about image of penang. The influence of macro and microenvironmental factors on. Examining factors influencing food tourist intentions to consume local cuisine jamie a levitt, fang meng, pei zhang, and robin b dipietro tourism and. The information enables the food and agriculture industry to improve its promotion strategies, and usda used it to complete a regulatory analysis for nutrition labeling on beef. Factors influencing travelers food consumption away from home. Culinary tourism, gastronomy tourism, local food, travel. Factors affecting growth of tourism hotspots geography. Factors influencing food consumption patterns in selected. Restaurants with limited promotion budgets depend mainly on word of mouth wom among customers. Examining factors influencing food tourist intentions to. Finally, it identi fies gaps in knowledge and outlines recommendations for research. Popular food tourist destinations are the places in which they have distinctive culinary style and offering high quality products. For example, young people have very different tastes as regards products or services, as compared to old people. Since food is the most important item of the consumption basket, an analysis of the changes in food consumption pattern over time has a special significance which is the most important component for low and middle income groups.
Participants were recruited by the community health. Factors that influence household and individual food. Pdf factors influencing tourist food consumption researchgate. Also young people tend to spend more than old people. Nowadays, food tourism is considered one of the most attractive and popular kinds of tourism. He proposes four motivational factors of food consumption in tourism. Traditionally, researchers using the economics approach have relied on regression analysis as the primary tool for estimating household water demand.
Fish and seafood consumption is influenced by many factors such as socioeconomic background, general food consumption patterns, personal health status of the consumers, and a number of attitudinal dimensions trondsenet al. Food consumption is variably affected by a whole range of factors including food availability, food accessibility and food choice, which in turn may be influenced by geography, demography, disposable income, ses, urbanization, globalization, marketing, religion, culture and consumer attitudes. Factors of influence and changes in the tourism consumer behaviour. Generally, tourism mostly prospers in those areas where good lodging and food facilities are available at reasonable prices. Factors influencing local food consumption determining different needs of various tourist segments would create a better design of local food products.
The following points highlight the twelve objectives factors affecting consumption. Tourism demand refers to the total number of people who travel or wish to travel, and use tourist facilities and services at places away from their places of. Deepdyve is the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Pdf motivations underlying tourist food consumption athena. Combining the macro theory of globalization and the micro theory of cultural capital to explain food tourism. Five main factors influencing the growth of tourism with. This section examines food preferences and, how such preferences are exercised. Factors that will affect the carrying capacity of a tourist destination will be include other factors such as. Factors influencing tourist food consumption sciencedirect.
The need for improved reporting on household access to. A purposive sampling procedure was used to select thirtytwo men and women 6 for indepth interviews, 26 for focus group discussions. How small changes in food choice can make big everyday. Food plays an important role in creating tourist places and destinations and it is recognized as a great potential and influential attraction in tourism. Factors influencing word of mouth behaviour in the. Factors influencing the consumption of seafood in istanbul. This statistic ranks factors influencing consumer food product choice in the united kingdom, from a shopper survey conducted in june 2015. The dynamics of world culture theory of globalization robertson, 1991, 1992 are at play in the tourist food consumption. Chang, providence university, taiwan this is a draft version of the paper. Most societies usually use fatty meat or white tea in cases where a celebration is needed sociocultural factors influencing food consumption patterns 2009. Characteristics and factors influencing fast food intake. This is because services are experiential in nature and difficult to assess before purchase. Since 1950s, fast food was penetrating the food market and becoming more and more popular. This study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption.
Request pdf examining factors influencing food tourist intentions to consume local cuisine food tourism is an activity which has grown in popularity. A descriptive, crosssectional study was undertaken, using an intervieweradministered, validated questionnaire to elicit the characteristics of the study. All subjects were selected based on their responses to the question i eat whenever food is available. Age is an effective discriminator of consumer behaviour. The previous studies regarding seafood consumption have shown that age, taste, healthnutrition and convenience, are. In the restaurants context there is little research on wom. The act of consuming food represents a basic locus of identity, of conformity, and of resistance. Despite its importance exploring different characteristics of tourists and their perceptions of local food have been. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors influencing fastfood consumption among adolescents in tehran, iran. Factors influencing tourists perception towards bangladeshi foods.
An understanding of the above aspects is critical for any business enterprise to inform the formulation of a marketing strategy. Factors which influence the consumption of street foods. Meanwhile, there are various other factors influencing the purchases of pinki rani, assistant, lic, kurukshetra. Factors influencing tourist food consumption by ahn mak, m lumbers, anita eves and rcy chang download pdf 176 kb. Consumer such as social, cultural, personal and psychological. The travel behaviour, the pull and push factors for a destination and image of a destination are elements which will affect the decisionmaking. The present qualitative study was conducted in 2012 20 in tehran, the capital of iran.
Socio economic factors affecting food consumption pattern in rural 650 in 1983 fao defined the goal for world food security. Infrastructure transport capacity, sewage and water supply systems, accommodation social impact of tourism on local culture, costs and benefits to services. Wom seems particularly important to the marketing of services. In addition, food consumption also contributes to the economy of a destination, and provides tourists with a local experience. Mak, university of surrey, uk margaret lumbers, university of surrey, uk anita eves, university of surrey, uk richard c.
This paper identifies the factors that influence the household and individual food consumption. Mak, ahn, lumbers, m, eves, anita and chang, rcy 2011 factors influencing tourist food consumption international journal of hospitality management, 31 3. To determine fast food consumption patterns, socioeconomic characteristics and other factors that influence the fast food intake of young adults from different socioeconomic areas in johannesburg, south africa. Different kinds of food became main purpose for tourists to travel and it has been viewed as being a fundamental need for tourist consumption and a significant factor of regional culture 1. Growth of tourism at a particular place is also influenced crucial factors like.
Factors affecting tourist destination satisfaction and. In addition to descriptive studies, ers has conducted regression analyses to better understand the factors affecting food consumption as well as to predict consumption. Factors for believing new info about food or health 20 consumer rating of impact of food and drinks on their health 2012 u. Eufic, or the european food information council, based in brussels, belgium, has studied and determined the key influencing factors with regard to food choice. Scholars previously studied personal individual factors affecting the food choices of travelers. Pdf this study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. Wolf 2002 defines gastronomic tourism as travel in search of food and drink which provides a unique and memorable experience. Logistic regression was done to evaluate factors impacting on fast food consumption. Food consumption has a broader scope and is documented as a collection of circumstantial and emerging social norms, where food not only aids nourishment but is also a way to associate with other people in social, cultural and political terms 3 mak ahn, lumbers m, eves a, chang cyr. Food consumption trends and drivers pubmed central pmc. The kinds of foods that are consumed during happy occasions like weddings and birthdays also vary from one society to the other. Factors influencing tourist food consumption surrey.
To achieve the objective of this study, 42 adolescents were enrolled in this study through a. Abstract this study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. Factors influencing visitors choices to visit urban. Factors that influence local food consumption motivation. The consumption of diverse food in travel is unique because it occurs outside the regular. Factors that influence local food consumption motivation and its effects on. Even those who appear otherwise powerless exercise choices in food preparation and consumption3 sensory perception plays an important role in food preference. Factors influencing tourist food consumption surrey research. A study of factors influencing food tourism branding. Factors influencing food consumption nevina caroline d. Johns and clarke 2001 note that the traveling experience has a huge impact on tourists and their overall experience of tourist destinations. Factors influencing tourists impulse buying behavior in luxury restaurants reference to kandy city, sri lanka.
This study is an attempt to identify factors affecting food consumption patterns of three ethnic groups found the limpopo province. Individual appreciation for food varies with each person, as well as the. Five main factors influencing the growth of tourism with diagram. Sociocultural factors influencing food consumption. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that may influence tourists. The main objective of this study was to estimate the impact of building additional attractions on increasing tourist visitations to selected north american cities and, in particular, to toronto and ottawa. Consumers buyer behaviour is influenced by four major factors. While there are six determinants, there are three larger categories of influences on food choice. Factors influencing consumers food choices uk 2015 statista.
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