Coffee tourism involves travel experiences related to coffee’s consumption, history, traditions, products, and culture (Jolliffee 2010). Most commonly, coffee tourism centers on visits to coffee plantations or small producer cooperatives during which tourists learn about the history of coffee (almost always beginning with its mythical discovery in Ethiopia by the goat herder, Kaldi), the basics of the coffee market, coffee cultivation, and processing. Generally, the tours end with an opportunity to sample the coffee produced on-site, and often visitors are offered bags of coffee for purchase. Coffee tours typically contribute to a plantation’s or cooperative’s economic diversification strategy (as an attempt to capture additional revenue) and are sometimes designed to increase brand awareness among visitors. While the above description may imply that coffee tours are standardized across geographic locations, in fact, they generally highlight local flavors, both literally in terms of the coffee terror, or the special characteristics that a farm’s geography and climate lend to a coffee, and figuratively, in terms of the seductive presentations of cultural diversity and history. It is the people and stories behind the coffee that truly capture most visitors ‘interests; this is similar to broader trends in specialty coffee marketing in which narratives extolling symbolic attributes are featured rather than straightforward claims to quality standards (Lyon 2011; West 2012).