Taste food, buy typical products, visit production sites, attend short training courses and take part in food tours. For summer 2023, these are the sectors preferred by tourists in Sardinia who choose a holiday on the island not only as a moment of relaxation but also as an opportunity to live experiences capable of enriching them from a cultural, social point of view and emotional.
This is confirmed by the " Report on Italian food and wine tourism 2023 " created by Roberta Garibaldi, professor of Tourism Management at the University of Bergamo for the Italian Food and Wine Tourism Association.
According to the analysis by Confartigianato Sardegna, the activities that the food and wine tourist chooses, in addition to tasting food and buying products, are visits to dairies, breweries, distilleries, wine cellars, oil mills, as well as courses in processing Sardinian dumplings or sebadas or culurgiones and food tours to get to know and compare several producers of the same kind or to get to know all the gastronomic excellences of the same territory.
In Sardinia, today, this type of experience is growing but still too limited. «We must commit ourselves to helping entrepreneurs acquire skills in the field of food and wine tourism - says Maria Amelia Lai, president of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna - in order to be able to enhance the territorial peculiarities, stimulate operators to innovate creative proposals for the area, have tools for designing tenders on the subject or organizing food&wine events that consider the main trends and trends in the sector».
(Unioneonline/ss)
