Progress and prospects for research of Wine Tourism in Portugal

Abstract

Wine producers in Portugal have begun to see tourism as an opportunity to diversify their profit margins. With the growing importance of enology universities have established greater research into the subject and to organize the existing bibliography. Thus, this paper presents a panorama of the articles on wine tourism 2003 to 2018 with a critical analysis of characteristics and trends in the Portuguese context. The literature review covers all the completed publications in English, Portuguese and Spanish in journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Scielo and Spell. A total of 36 articles were examined after eliminating duplicates, dissertations and theses. The main conclusions are that wineries tend to be organized by routes with scant literature relating to other routes and wine regions outside Portugal.

Keywords

• wine tourism
• Wine consumption
• Wine reearch
• Portugal wine
• Portugal wine research