ABSTRACT

Digital technology is changing the tourism industry. This work aims to describe the development of digital technology activities in gastronomy tourism. The literature review method was used with narrative descriptive approach. Through this approach, both the digitalization phenomenon in gastronomy and the description of the terms in digital gastronomy could be explained. This work concluded that there were human activities not only fulfilling their food needs using digital technology, based on gastronomy tourism concept. There were many activities in digitalization gastronomy, that is, recognizing local food history, tradition and philosophy, finding from local food and drink, finding the origin and distribution of raw material, understanding how to make, how to serve, to enjoy the learning process and getting experience, understanding nutrient content, as well as ethics and etiquette. In addition, the most important thing was that gastronomy digitalization should be used for conservation and education development of gastronomy tourism in the future.