A Study on the Impact of Distance and Income on Potential Gastrotourists’ Decision-Making Process

Abstract

The study aimed at assessing the impact of distance and daily food expenditure on whether a person would become a gastronomic tourist. The methods of linear probability model and logistic regression have been used to verify the impact of explanatory factors on binary dependent variable. The study was conducted among 558 local residents of Samarkand region. The results of the research show that an increase in the expenditure on a meal and increase in the distance that tourist is ready to go for an indigenous food significantly affects a person’s desire to make a gastronomic travel. This research contributes to the “state of the art” literature as an empirical experiment highlighting the impact of factors on the process of taking up gastronomy trip.

Keywords

• gastronomic tourism
• logistic regression
• meal
• quality
• cultural identity
• food
• winery