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Database research record2008·United States (Door County, Wisconsin)

Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism: Culinary Tourism as a Community Development Strategy

Gary Paul Green, Michael L. Dougherty

Community Development

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This paper examined culinary tourism through a case study of the Kingdom So Delicious program in Door County, Wisconsin. The analysis was based on intensive interviews with owners/managers of four restaurants and surveys of 30 retailers and 40 farmers in the region. The most frequently cited concerns with producing for local establishments involved in culinary tourism were low prices and challenging logistics.