WINE TOURISM

Wine Tourism

Abstract

Wine tourism refers to the tourists, whose mind is or includes the consumption of, wine tasting and buying wine. Wine tourism can consist of visits to vineyards and restaurants known to offer unique wines, wineries and wine tours in advance, wine festivals or other special events.



Wine tourism

Chapter 1: Introduction

Wine tourism refers to the tourists, whose mind is or includes the consumption of, wine tasting and buying wine. Wine tourism can consist of visits to vineyards and restaurants known to offer unique wines, wineries, as well as organized tours of wine festivals and other special events. Hall and Macionis (1996) is defined as a wine tourism: visits to wineries, vineyards, wine festivals and wine shows for which grape tasting wine and wine-making experience symptoms of wines prime factors attractive to visitors. Macionis (1996, 1997) proposed a model of wine tourism is based on a special interest in wine-motivated appointments (wine region), activity (wine tasting) or both. Although tourism, including day trips and excursions, is important for many wineries in the ability to sell wine directly to visitors through the basement sale, or place, these customers direct mailing list, tourism, if it is specified at all, which sometimes seem to be very slightly under wine with the condition under which those who are seriously interested in wine, rather than tourists (Bradley, 1982, Hall and Johnson 1997). Johnson (1998) wine tourism is defined as shown in the vineyards, wineries, wine festivals and wine shows, in order to rest. This definition excludes official visit and stressed that the recreational activity. In addition, it also ignores much of the historical context of wine tourism (Johnson 1991). Wine tourism, which is simply defined as "someone who visits a vineyard, wine cellar, wine festival wine show on the holiday.

Wine tourism is a concept and a product that applies the know-how of significant growth. Wine tourism period covers two parts, each of which are important for the environment, local finance and lifestyle, and which have long been intertwined. However, the formation of the share of trade between the two families have only recently been identified in some circles, and is still an important need for self-confidence, and perhaps more importantly, misuderstandings over how tourism and the wine can deliver positive help each other and regions in which they coexist.

Chapter 2: Literature Review

France, a country with a huge collection of wines from red to light fruity sparkling white, with a lesser-known species, embracing "black wine" (VIN gris) and "yellow wine" (VIN Jaune), is one of the best wines in the world generations. Famous wines that France has created a Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne. France has a rich past, the files in the wine product and is now one of the oldest wine on the European continent. Wine in France, Alsace, Beaujolais, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Jura, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon wine region. Value and taste of wine depends on certain characteristics, for example, a variant type of the terroir and the grapes harvested, ...