ABSTRACT

In Chapters 1-3 the aim was to display the general arena that is bringing food and drink tourism to arrive. The overall environment, social context and general cultural currents participating in the scene and causing to deliver food and drink as an object of tourism were presented. In the initial effort of Chapter 1 to depict food and drink tourism and its emergence, and developed in Chapters 2 and 3, there was some portrayal of why the appearance is now. Certain suggestions have been made of reasons in tourism and the tourism industry for encouraging suppliers now to adopt food and drink tourism as among their tourism offer. So, some first attention has been given to considering why providers and stakeholders would make food and drink tourism their provision. Also, it has been observed to which sectors among these the type is suited particularly and among this was included noting characteristics in food and drink tourism to render it as especially able for use by SMEs. In Chapter 3, from a perspective that saw the consumer as starting point, more attention, than upon the supplier and their environment and stakeholders, was turned upon the consumer and their motivations and how these bring about and connect to food and drink tourism. Now, in Chapter 4, providers and their context, concerns and aspects as linking and relevant to the subject under discussion will be the central consideration.