Destinations

Skift Research Interviews: How Hotels Can Play a Role in Food Tourism

Destinations

Skift Research Interviews: How Hotels Can Play a Role in Food Tourism

February 2019
12 min read
Meghan Carty

Skift Take

Hotels are often discounted as serious players in the food tourism space. The food and beverage executives from Marriott International and Jumeirah Group would beg to differ.

Report Overview

In Skift Research’s recently published report, The New Era of Food Tourism: Trends and Best Practices for Stakeholders, we defined food tourism as it exists today and looked at the role multiple types of organizations can play in the space. Experts and executives from various sectors have contributed to our report through interviews. To help various stakeholders gain perspectives on what our report topics mean to their specific business, we will release a series of complete interviews complementary to the report. This report includes our interviews with food and beverage executives of two major hotel companies: Marriott International and Jumeirah Group. They talk about how hotels can play a role in food tourism and what they are doing in their respective roles to integrate this trend into their operations.



The transcripts have been edited for brevity and clarity as necessary.