Gastronomy in Turkish Tourism Journals: Where the Gastronomy Studies are Headed?

Abstract

Gastronomy has been a part of human life for a long time. On the other hand, scientific research in this field is recently increasing. Gastronomy has been gaining an increasing momentum in both international and national studies. It is important to study the fields development. In this context, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the topics of national gastronomy studies. In this research, which is handled within the scope of tourism magazines scanned in ULAKBIM TR Index journals, 620 articles have been examined. Research purposes such as the number of articles, authors, multi-authorship and institution and keywords were examined, and content analysis was used in this context. When the findings were examined, six areas related to gastronomy were identified: food and culture, operations, gastronomy tourism, food and health, gastronomy education and food science. Besides, marketing, management, tourism, media, sustainability and other fields were identified. Results has demonstrated that the most striking issue is marketing and the local issues. Specific products and regions were over studied in the gastronomy field. On the other hand, it was found that topics that may have widespread effects were scarce.