In the book Food Tourism around the World, Mitchell and Hall (2003) state:
“Studies of consumer behavior in the area of food tourism are rare and, as
a result, the picture we have of the food tourist, is at best sketchy, and
considerable amount of research is required to understand food tourism
consumer behavior more effectively. To date the material that does exist
has been borrowed from more general tourism studies or has been inferred
from studies not directly related to tourism