Start Date

31-5-2022 11:45 AM

End Date

31-5-2022 12:00 PM

Description

Artisan food producers are arguably more than the sum of their parts when it comes to the important role they play within Ireland’s food in tourism landscape.

On the one hand, both food and tourism as well as the artisan economy are forecasted to grow globally (Yeoman and McMahon-Beatte 2016, 95; Avent 2018; Polites 2020), suggesting that there is a significant role for artisan producers to play in food tourism in Ireland, compounded by a developing interest in local and sustainable food (Sage 2010). On the other, artisan food producers are both purveyors and preservers of food culture, heritage and traditions while simultaneously driving creativity and innovation, which is important as food tourism needs to be about creating the future as well as preserving the past (Richards 2002, 16).

And with the future predicted to be more like the past than was once thought (Fernández-Armesto 2002, 223), what brings artisan food producers to this conspicuous position in Ireland’s food tourism landscape is arguably movement…movement between history and modernity, economics and culture, and tradition and innovation.

This paper considers the increasing value of the artisan food producers’ role in food and tourism that is reflective of these movements in a changing environment.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/36cm-hf07

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Back to the Future: The Artisan Food Producer in Ireland’s Food Tourism Proposition

Artisan food producers are arguably more than the sum of their parts when it comes to the important role they play within Ireland’s food in tourism landscape.

On the one hand, both food and tourism as well as the artisan economy are forecasted to grow globally (Yeoman and McMahon-Beatte 2016, 95; Avent 2018; Polites 2020), suggesting that there is a significant role for artisan producers to play in food tourism in Ireland, compounded by a developing interest in local and sustainable food (Sage 2010). On the other, artisan food producers are both purveyors and preservers of food culture, heritage and traditions while simultaneously driving creativity and innovation, which is important as food tourism needs to be about creating the future as well as preserving the past (Richards 2002, 16).

And with the future predicted to be more like the past than was once thought (Fernández-Armesto 2002, 223), what brings artisan food producers to this conspicuous position in Ireland’s food tourism landscape is arguably movement…movement between history and modernity, economics and culture, and tradition and innovation.

This paper considers the increasing value of the artisan food producers’ role in food and tourism that is reflective of these movements in a changing environment.