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IntroductionThe Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group was established at the expert meeting held in Portugal in March 2001, which was attended by 10 ATLAS members who made presentations to the International Gastronomy Conference organised by the Regional Tourist Board for the Alto Minho. The papers presented at the Portugal meeting have been published by Routledge in June 2001 (A.M. Hjalager and G. Richards (2001) Tourism and Gastronomy. London: Routledge).
The next Gastronomy & Tourism Research Group Expert Meeting will take place in Viana do Castelo on Tuesday, September 4th 2007. This immediately precedes the main Atlas Conference (see here for details).
The theme for the meeting is 'Food Identity and Intellectual Property Rights'
For more information about the coming meeting please contact Kevin Fields (kfields@glos.ac.uk)
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Annual review of activities 2006Kevin Fields
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
kfields@glos.ac.uk
Rather a calm before the storm at the moment. There is little happening as our expert meeting draws close in Macau. A certain amount of planning has been carried out since our last meeting, in Barcelona, but any research being undertaken is by individuals, rather than any joint initiatives by the group.
The number of submitted abstracts for Macau is less than hoped for, possibly because our members' focus is currently on the forthcoming annual ATLAS conference, rather than the gastronomy meeting, which is two months later.
It is also possible that European members are slightly discouraged by the perceived geographic remoteness of Macau. If that is the case, I can assure you that this globe of ours is shrinking and remoteness is nowadays just a perception, not a reality. Access to Macau is better than it has ever been and the cost of flights is not the barrier it may have once been.
Additionally, those who attend are likely to enjoy gastronomic experiences (from an academic viewpoint, of course) only previously enjoyed by the most seasoned of travellers. Whetting your appetite yet? It should truly be a marvellous event and expand the food horizons of our gastronomes considerably!
Right, I'll get off my soap box now. Just trying to give extra encouragement to the fence-sitters who haven't yet committed themselves to attend. To those who have already committed - I look forward to seeing you all in Macau in November.
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New coordinator for the Gastronomy and Tourism Research GroupDuring the SIG meeting of the Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group in Barcelona on the 1st of November 2005, it was decided that Kevin Fields will take over the role as coordinator of the SIG from Jetske van Westeringen. We would like to thank Jetske for all her hard work in the last years of group and good luck to Kevin!
So please from now on, for more information about the SIG Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group, contact Kevin Fields at kfields@glos.ac.uk..
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Annual review of activities 2005Jetske van Westering
University of Surrey
J.Van-Westering@surrey.ac.uk
Introduction
The Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group was established at the expert meeting held in Portugal in March 2001, which was attended by 10 ATLAS members who made presentations to the International Gastronomy Conference organised by the Regional Tourist Board for the Alto Minho. The next meetings of the group took place respectively in Sondrio, Northern Italy (2002) and in Massignac, France (2003). During both meetings ways of developing research into the relationship between tourism and gastronomy were considered and the group resources for funding were discussed. The group has since then grown steadily.
Overall purpose
Main aims
Overarching themes
Activities
This year the annual T&G meeting is linked to the annual ATLAS conference, where the venue for the 2006 conference will be discussed.
Most members of this group are involved in research in this subject in their local area. However during the meetings we aim to discuss our current research and to identify possibilities for co-operative research. One such a plan is to produce a handbook on sustainable gastronomy routes; a conceptual framework to assist in the identification and the management of sustainable gastronomy tourist routes. For more information about the group and its meetings please contact Jetske van Westering (J.Van-Westering@surrey.ac.uk)
Publications
A.M. Hjalager and G. Richards (2001), Tourism and Gastronomy. London: Routledge
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Annual review of activities 2004This year saw the T&G group grow in size by about a third. Ten members from diverse countries (USA, the Emirates, Hong Kong, as well as from Europe) joined the mailing list and/or attended the third annual meeting.
The annual meeting held last September in Massignac, Charente, France commenced with a welcome from the mayor of Massignac and an introduction to tourism in the Haut Charente area by the Director of the area Tourist Board. After this, visits to food producers and tourist sites, local gastronomic meals and academic papers followed each other up in high tempo. Remarkably few photos (see ATLAS web site) were taken during the presentation of papers, but all the more were taken in the restaurants and of food producers visited!
It has been proposed that the next G&T meeting will be hosted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in September. An earlier plan of the group to instigate a joint research project into tourism and the sustainability of regional cuisine will then be taken forward. Other ideas for co-operation on research projects will be investigated during the meeting as well; proposals are welcome.
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