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Title
Metropolitan cuisine tourism: exploring food tourists to the Creole cuisine in New Orleans, LA USA
Description
Cuisines are becoming increasingly significant in a tourist's experience and as such looking into different cuisines and their effects on the tourist's destination provides strong indicators of the outlook for the destination. Metropolitan areas within the United States have a history of being known for specific food items as well as types of cuisines. This study explores the Metropolitan area of New Orleans and the cuisine specific to this region: the Creole cuisine. A mixed methods approach was used to identify the Creole cuisine within the New Orleans area as both a regional cuisine and as a culturally significant cuisine, within the context of the United States of America. Once established, and through the help of the local New Orleans' Convention and Visitors Bureau, an online questionnaire was distributed to individuals that had shown an interest in visiting the New Orleans area. The questionnaire identified the characteristics of the Creole cuisine and the respondents' most recent trip to New Orleans. The Brief Sensation Seeking Scale, adjusted for cuisine tourism, provided a categorical separation of the respondents into three groupings: "Foodies", "Semi-foodies", and "Non-foodies". Two important findings emerge from this study, the cultural significant cuisine segmentation model and the foodie scale. These two findings allow for an in depth look at characteristics of regional cuisines and food tourists, while providing a way to predict food characteristics of both destination and individual.
Date Created
2010
Contributors
- Seery, Paul S (Author)
- Tyrrell, Timothy (Thesis advisor)
- Timothy, Dallen (Committee member)
- Beezhold, Bonnie (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Sociology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Marketing
- Cuisine Tourism
- Culinary Tourism
- Food Toursim
- Gastronomy
- Heritage tourism
- New Orleans
- Food tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Food tourism
- Heritage tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Heritage tourism
- Cooking, Creole--Louisiana style.
- Cooking--Economic aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Cooking
- Tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans--Marketing.
- tourism
Resource Type
Extent
vi, 85 p. : ill
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8691
Statement of Responsibility
by Paul S. Seery
Description Source
Viewed on March 29, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2010
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-79)
Field of study: Recreation and tourism studies
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