TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Effect of Local Food on Tourism: Gaziantep Case
AB  - Experiencing local food in a certain destination becomes one of the most important tourism activities for tourists.Local foods; which play an important role in destination choice, revisit intention and marketing are useful toolsfor destination development. In 2015 Gaziantep was entitled to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network inGastronomy branch. Therefore the aim of this study is to investigate the domestic tourist perception of Gazianteplocal food and the effect of this perception on revisit intention. As a result of the survey conducted with 394domestic tourists have visited Gaziantep, it had been shown that the local food perception can be grouped underfive dimensions as cultural experience, restaurant service, food taste, health and hygiene, variety and tablemanner. It had been also found that the dimensions of cultural experience, variety and table manner, food tastehave a positive effect on the revisit intention. However, it was also determined that Gaziantep's membership ofthe UNESCO Creative Cities Network in gastronomy branch is not known enough. In destination marketing,local dishes can be stressed more strongly and thus more tourists can be attracted. Therefore, tour companies cangive more space to promote Gaziantep's regional culinary richness in their promotional brochures, websites andsocial media.
AU  - SERT, Ayşe Nevin
PY  - 2019
JO  - Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SN  - 1303-0094
SP  - 1611
EP  - 1625
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/326511
ER  -