国外旅游者饮食消费研究述评

旅游者饮食消费作为一种基本的旅游活动之一，是国外旅游研究中重点关注的领域，并形成相当丰富的研究成果。文章在对国外有关旅游者饮食消费的文献进行梳理整理的基础上，从旅游者饮食消费与旅游目的地、旅游者饮食消费的影响因素、旅游者饮食体验三个方面对国外的研究进行回顾，并在旅游者饮食消费体验的分析与回顾的基础上提出旅游者的自我矛盾的理论模型；文章最后从三个方面对国内的未来研究提出展望，第一，强调旅游研究中的非视觉景观与体验；第二，关注全球化背景下旅游目的地饮食的生产与消费；第三，探讨旅游者饮食消费背后的社会文化含义。

REVIEW ON TOURIST FOOD CONSUMPTION IN FOREIGN STUDIES

Food consumption in tourism as one of the basic tourism activities, it's a crucial form of tourist consumption, but it has largely been neglected in the hospitality and tourism literature. The significant implications of tourist food consumption on destinations have received a growing research interest recently. Now it has been a hot topic in foreign tourism study, and it has already formed quite rich research results. Based on this background, this paper sorting out literature about tourist food consumption in foreign countries, then a review of foreign studies from three aspects has been done: the relationship of tourist food consumption with destination, the factors influencing the tourist food consumption and the food experience of tourist. Firstly, we found that the western research on the relationship between tourist food consumption with destination mainly from the economic and cultural perspective. Many studies have proved that tourist food consumption has a positive effect on the destination economy. While form the perspective of culture, most of the previous studies have indicated that the local food paly an important role on the self identity of tourists and the local education. However, some scholars believe that the tourist food consumption is a very complex behavior, and the local food in destination may also be a obstacle to the tourists' travel experience. Secondly, we found that many western scholars pay a lot of attention on the factors influencing the tourist food consumption, and different scholars draw different conclusions. Thirdly, this paper reviewed western research on the experience of the tourist food consumption, and the western research on this field is focused on the character and the authenticity of the food experience of tourist, and we found that some scholars thought the food experience of tourist can be a supporting consumer experience, and it also can be a peak experience.