The role of gastronomy tourism in slow cities: Case of Turkey

Abstract

Cittaslow forms from the words Italian Citta and English slow and means “slow city”. This concept formation; has been started to protest the opening of McDonalds at Spanish Stairs/Rome in 1986 by a group in the leadership of Carlo Petrini, throwing bunch of Italian macaroni plateful. The main reason of this protest is based on the philosophy “Eating food should not be greedily and not be a fast-food”. As from this concept, the time slips by slowly and Slow food concept has been revealed in reaction to the fast-food and gradually been spreaded all over the world extemporarily. During this process, "Slow Food Unity" has been established in Barolo/Italy.In the later years, has become a movement that fed from a mutual "slowness philosophy" such as money, food-beverage, life, trip, education and other fields (Presenza et al., 2015; Üstündağlı et al., 2015; Park&Kim, 2014; Ekinci, 2014; Baycan&Fusco Giard, 2013; Heitmann et al., 2011; Pink, 2009; Pink, 2007; Knox, 2005).