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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2017, Vol. 32 Issue (3): 20-26,35    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.03.003
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REVIEW ON TOURIST FOOD CONSUMPTION IN FOREIGN STUDIES
LIU Bin1,2, WANG Ting-zhi1, CHEN Zhong-nuan3
1. School of Tourism, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China;
2. Department of Tourism, Zhuhai College of Jilin University, Zhuhai 519041, China;
3. School of Geographic Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China

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Abstract  Food consumption in tourism as one of the basic tourism activities, it's a crucial form of tourist consumption, but it has largely been neglected in the hospitality and tourism literature. The significant implications of tourist food consumption on destinations have received a growing research interest recently. Now it has been a hot topic in foreign tourism study, and it has already formed quite rich research results. Based on this background, this paper sorting out literature about tourist food consumption in foreign countries, then a review of foreign studies from three aspects has been done: the relationship of tourist food consumption with destination, the factors influencing the tourist food consumption and the food experience of tourist. Firstly, we found that the western research on the relationship between tourist food consumption with destination mainly from the economic and cultural perspective. Many studies have proved that tourist food consumption has a positive effect on the destination economy. While form the perspective of culture, most of the previous studies have indicated that the local food paly an important role on the self identity of tourists and the local education. However, some scholars believe that the tourist food consumption is a very complex behavior, and the local food in destination may also be a obstacle to the tourists' travel experience. Secondly, we found that many western scholars pay a lot of attention on the factors influencing the tourist food consumption, and different scholars draw different conclusions. Thirdly, this paper reviewed western research on the experience of the tourist food consumption, and the western research on this field is focused on the character and the authenticity of the food experience of tourist, and we found that some scholars thought the food experience of tourist can be a supporting consumer experience, and it also can be a peak experience.
Key wordstourist food consumption      foreign studies      literature review      self-contradiction of tourist     
Received: 15 December 2015     
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