ANTALYA - Now Turkey is not only counting on its bright sunshine, long beaches, blue seas and colorful nightlife when it comes to drawing and entertaining tourists. With the country's huge variety of delicious cuisine, gastronomy tourism is becoming more and more important in Turkey. Mouthwatering assets to tourism Culinary tourism, introduced as an alternative to the common perception of tourism, is growing in popularity. Increasing its part of the total tourism pie, the newly developing tourism branch offers tourists the opportunity to experience a variety of local tastes in addition to learning about the country’s cultural motifs. Becoming more of a tool to increase publicity of regions, especially within cultural tours, such as Cappadocia or Southeastern Turkey tours, culinary tourism is also worthy of consideration in terms of its contribution to the total tourism income as well as to the general perception of the regions. Osman Aydogan, general secretary of the Tourism Journalists Association, said in an interview with the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review that culinary tourism, which is also known as "gastronomy tourism," has not yet developed into an entirely independent type of tourism in Turkey. It is a sub-branch, but a fast developing one, he added...
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