Quiz 11

Question 1

What are food miles?

Answer 1

How far the food travels to get to someone’s plate; i.e. local food has low food miles

Question 2

The ‘Eat the View’ strategy

Answer 2

Aims to link the consumer with the countryside by encouraging consumers to purchase locally

Question 3

Why should destinations focus on food tourism?

Answer 3

Food tourism can strengthen a region’s identity, sustain cultural heritage, contest fears of global food homogenisation and facilitate regeneration of an area’s sociocultural fabric

Question 4

What is the relationship between food tourism and the homogenization associated with globalization? (Cohen’s view of cultural change and food tourism)

Answer 4

Food could strengthen and positively reinforce cultural and social identities; encourages retention of a local food identity

Question 5

What food is Cornwall known for?

Answer 5

The pasty

Question 6

Food tourism and tourists spending

Answer 6

Tourists are willing to pay more for a locally identified product

Question 7

Food tourism and seasonality

Answer 7

Cornwall is exposed to the highest level of seasonal tourism activity, food tourism can extend visitors beyond peak season

Question 8

Demographics of food tourists to Cornwall

Answer 8

Someone knowledgeable, with- out young children, financially comfortable and keen to engage in food-related activities and pursuits.