Introduction (Liliana Dumitrache and Olaf Kühne).- The landscapes of tourism and food – a theoretical classification of Touristscapes and Foodscapes (Olaf Kühne).- Post-socialist settlement developments - the example of Bucharest (Liliana Dumitrache and Olaf Kühne).- Touristscapes of Romania (Anca Tudoricu and Liliana Dumitrache).- Bucharest Old Town: exploring city tourism experiences via the TripAdvisor (Mariana Nae and Liliana Dumitrache).- Touristscapes of Rome (Barbara Staniscia).- Where is the European Tourism headed? Evolution of the regulation in Europe up to the 2030 European Agenda for Tourism (Ana de Marcos Fernández).- Legal limitations on the tourist use of housing in city centers (Angel Menendez Rexach).- Red Tourism: Communist heritage in Bucharest: from the public opinion to the impact on the landscape (Brandon A. Narváez Agurto, Cazacu Cristian, Iván Muela Rabadán, Tabea Schmid, Jonas Thumm).- Collaborative Heritage: Engaging Local Communities in Bucharest’s Dark Tourism Development (Adriana González Alonso, Hamza Zulfiqar, Karolina Lesniowski, Veronica Oancea).- Dark tourism and its bright future. Case study: Bellu Cemetery, Romania (Anca Tudoricu, Alina Mareci, Alexandra Velicu).- The link between local food habits in Bucharest and the creation of a gastronomic identity (Manuela Cárdenas Ramos, Leonie Charlotte Röthler, Assunta Trapani).- Exploring the Design and Content of Restaurant Menus for a Comprehensive Understanding of Traditional Romanian Cuisine (Alexandra Cioclu, Angelo Andi Petre, Ernesto Lamagna, Francois Cavaliere).- Analyzing the main instagrammable touristic points. Case study: Bucharest (Romania) (Ana-Maria Talos, Ioana-Alexandra Mirea, Răzvan-Cristian Muntean, Florin-Alexandru ZHARIA, George Alexandru Motoiu).

Landscape and food - there is hardly a form of tourism that is not oriented towards one or the other (often both). As a result of this close connection, our anthology explores the different facets of these links. Drawing on the concepts of Touristscapes and Foodscapes, an international group of authors provide theoretical considerations as well as overviews of larger spatial units and local and thematic case studies. What the contributions have in common is their focus on a synthetic-landscape view of the topics dealt with, ranging from the investigation of post-socialist material substrates for the development of current touristscapes and foodscapes, to the touristic use of socialist heritage and phenomena of dark tourism, to the development of gastronomic offers and their significance for the construction of identities, but also the staging of places for social media contexts. Contributions from authors, particularly from the fields of geography, economics and sociology, highlight the diversity of perspectives on the rapidly developing research field of landscape, food and tourism.

Contents

Foodscapes, touristscapes, food, tourism, landscape, restaurants, cemeteries.

Target group

Students and teachers of geography, tourism science, spatial sociology, landscape research and related fields. In addition, the book is also of interest to practitioners working at the interface between food, tourism and landscape.

The Editors

Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne is a university professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Thematically, his research focuses on landscape and spatial conflicts, regional geography, cartography and urban development. His spatial focus is on East-Central Europe, Germany, Italy and the United States of America, in particular the South and West.  

Liliana Dumitrache is a Professor and Head of the Department of Human and Economic Geography at the University of Bucharest. She is a human geographer who carries out research and teaching activities in the fields of the Geography of health and healthcare, Geodemography, Geography of wellbeing, Health tourism.