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...is not a resort, where you can lose any weight during your holidays, the food here is simply too excellent and rated very highly by our guests. To offer you the utmost variety during your holidays we change the menu every week. Those websites that projected food and restaurants as part of their attractions gave more emphasis to food. These websites provide a link on the homepage to a separate section providing information on dining, restaurants and bars (Figure 5.10). The information on these websites emphasise speciality restaurants and food experiences. The opening lines of one such website reads: Whatever takes your fancy and whatever the time of the day or night, our resident chefs remain entirely at your disposal. They can conjure up a myriad of succulent gourmet dishes to tempt your sensations and satisfy any taste at any time... Again, there is no specific mention of local food. Figure 5. 10 Website with more information on dining and food Source: www.royal-island.com 100
The description indicates that food is a special feature of the establishment. The 18 websites that were analysed, only six were found to provide this kind of detailed information on food. Most of the marketing materials do not place much emphasis on portraying food as an important part of the tourist experience. Moreover, in all the marketing materials the scarceness of information about local food and local food related activities is evident. This finding is supported by the results from content analysis which revealed a clear picture of comparison between the extent that local and other foods were used in tourism promotion. There were a total of 176 local food images and mentions in the text, whereas for ‘other’ food a total of 776 images and text references were recorded. Websites had less information on local food than printed materials. A total of seven websites mentioned local food, out of which only four described local food in ways that suggested local food was an attraction. Food events that involved local food were mentioned twice and local theme restaurants mentioned only once. Information about local markets is also scarce. More images of tourists with non-local foods were displayed than with local food. There were 19 images of tourists with non-local foods such as pasta and breads, whereas there were only 4 images of tourists with local food. In the textual content, other types of food were mentioned 371 times while local food was mentioned 70 times. The types of local foods that were featured in the marketing materials and the frequency of occurrence are illustrated in Table 5.4. 101
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The Role of Local Food in Maldives
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CHAPTER FIVE: THE CURRENT ROLE OF F
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Figure 5.26 Buffet dinner .........
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Attestation of authorship “I here
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Abstract In the fiercely competitiv
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1.1 Background to the study CHAPTER
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attractiveness and promoting sustai
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Figure 1. 1 Map of the Republic of
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CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW The
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and nationalities are broadened (Sh
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focus on creating “meaningful tou
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quality of their services and produ
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waiting list for future Guggenheim
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Natural and cultural attractions ar
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local culture, built heritage, and
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Although the above inherent charact
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ituals and leisure (Tannahill, 2002
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and participation in the experience
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Cultural exploration is an integral
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2002). As Jones and Jenkins (2002)
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Figure 2. 2 Isle of Arran food trai
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globalisation strong local food ide
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vegetarian pizza outlets are run by
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tradition are made sustainable in t
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tourism” (p. 115). As their examp
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Slow Food Award in 2000 which recog
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eing researched. Although the small
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On the other hand, the focus of the
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A disadvantage of case sstudies is
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Figure 6. 21 Drinks made with local
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CHAPTER SEVEN: CONCLUSIONS In an in
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list ‘local’ food items were of
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apparent from tourism marketing mat
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operator” (Omidi, 2009b). Those r
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