We believe that food tourism and food tourism development are community experiences.

The Culinary Tourism Alliance works with communities to grow food tourism by leveraging the history, heritage, and culture behind the food and drink that makes each destination unique.

Our food tourism focus includes agritourism, cultural tourism, ecotourism, rural tourism and sustainable tourism.

We specialize in…

Destination Development

  • Asset mapping and assessment

  • Product & program development

  • Strategy development & implementation

  • Stakeholder engagement & community mobilization

  • Partnership development

  • Capacity building & business coaching

  • Education

  • Feasibility studies & business planning

Monitoring, Evaluation, & Evolution

  • Product & experience assessment

  • System development

  • Data collection

  • Impact assessment

  • Improvement planning

Marketing & Storytelling

  • Culinary tourism marketing strategy development

  • Custom content trips

  • Content marketing

  • Social media marketing

  • Influencer trips

  • Advertising

  • Graphic design

READ OUR LATEST CASE STUDY

Agritourism Development Strategy in Peterborough & the Kawarthas

Our approach is unique.

Community engagement is central to all of our projects. Meeting and supporting growers, producers, chefs, business owners, economic developers, destination marketers, and everyone in between is the most rewarding part of our work. 

We strive to always be inclusive and look through a culturally-sensitive lens.

We develop methodologies to build capacity within food tourism communities and work tirelessly to provide the knowledge, skills, tools, and resources for them to successfully grow food tourism as a collective. 

We practice community-based participatory research because we believe that food tourism development can only happen by building local partnerships and synergies across the food tourism value chain.

We scope out projects in consultation with each client, and develop work plans that leverage the combined skills, experience, and capacity that is available. We allow for projects to evolve in a way that is highly respectful of the needs and interests of each client. 

We help find answers to your most burning questions:

  • What are the main gaps and opportunities for food tourism development?

  • How can we attract more culinary tourists?

  • How can we be more effective at telling our taste of place story?

 

If it’s interesting… we’re interested!
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