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The Erasmus+ project BevTOUR aims to identify and detail best practices in food and beverage tourism
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Help food & beverage producers, and the support organizations and intermediaries in this sector all over Europe to understand the potential benefits of Food and Beverage Tourism to their own business. Gastro-tourism, culinary tourism or food and beverage tourism is the exploration of food/ beverage as the purpose of tourism. The exploration of food or beverage is considered a vital component of th

e tourism experience, which helps to strengthen and develop local and regional tourism. Food/ Beverage Tourism is ‘the act of travelling for a taste of place to get a sense of place’. Gastro-tourism benefits local economy in terms of tourism spend, local agriculture and production, and employment. It also helps to increase community awareness and pride in local culinary cultures. The BevTOUR project results will help food and beverage producers, and the support organizations and intermediaries in this sector all over Europe to understand the potential benefits of Food and Beverage Tourism to their own business, and to the wider region. It will help them to understand what is possible in terms of developing their tourism potential through best practice cases from around Europe.

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🟩 case study: Hecks Cider Farm and Shop! 🍎

The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for seven generations since 1841, initially in Chard but they moved to Street in 1896. The Employee total is 3, yet they make between 130,000 and 180,000 litres per year.

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“At the table with good friends and family you do not become old. “ (Italy) The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for seven generations since 1841, initially in Chard but they moved to Street in 1896. The Employee total is 3, yet they make between 130,000 an...

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🟩 case study: Finca Fuentillezjos! 🧀

The farm began as a leisure time activity of a family of doctors who loved spending time in the countryside among pastures and cattle and enjoyed making ecological cheese for self-consumption.

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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” (François de la Rochefoucauld) Finca Fuentillezjos The farm begun as a leisure time activity of family of doctors who loved spending time in the countryside among pastures and cattle and enjoyed making ecological cheese for self-consu...

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🟩 case study: The Apple Festival in Agia! 🍎

The municipality of Agia has organized the Apple Festival for the last 15 years, promoting in this way both the main product cultivated by its residents and the region more widely. It is a seven-day festival, which consists of religious ceremonies, music and dance events, and presentation of the apples.

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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food give you their heart.” (Cesar Chavez) The Apple Festival is organized every year at the beginning of September in Agia. The municipality of Agia has organized the Apple Festival fo...

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🟩 case study: Oleofer! 🫒

Oleofer is the first company in the area to offer a guided tour of the olive oil production facilities, olive oil tasting combined upon request with a visit to the Segura Castel or even with a boat ride in the El Tranco de las Beas reservoir.

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“At the table with good friends and family you do not become old. “ (Italy) The Hernandez Hidaglo family, inherited the passion for olive oil from their grandparents who started buying leftover olive trees after the Spanish civil war and exchanged the olive their produced with other foodstuffs l...

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🟩 case study: Touris Farm Urška! 🧑‍🌾

The core of the unique concept in this Tourist Farm consists of involvement of the guests in the every day’s farm activities – especially work at the field where the guests can collect the vegetables themselves and the children can search for eggs – all used later with the meals.

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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food give you their heart.” (Cesar Chavez) The story of the event or experience, how it started and evolved to its current form, when it started, what is unique about it, how popular th...

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🟩 case study: Brewery Hops! 🍺

Brewery Hops is a bespoke guided tour company, designed around tours of breweries and distilleries in Ireland. It was set up by Mia Tobin, an accredited National tour guide with 10 years of experience.

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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” (François de la Rochefoucauld) Brewery Hops is a bespoke guided tour company, designed around tours of breweries and distilleries in Ireland. It was set up by Mia Tobin, an accredited National tour guide with 10 years experience. Mia ...

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🟩 case study: The Rungis Market! 🛒

The Rungis International Market is the principal market of Paris, mainly for food and horticultural products, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs. It is the largest wholesale food market in the world.

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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” (François de la Rochefoucauld) The Rungis International Market is the principal market of Paris, mainly for food and horticultural products, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs. It is the largest wholesale food m...

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🟩 case study: MARIBOR WINE ROUTE! 🍇

The Maribor Wine Route takes visitors through the wine shops in the Maribor city centre where they can admire, select and taste the excellent regional wines as well as the culinary specialities from the same area.

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“At the table with good friends and family you do not become old. “ (Italy) Maribor is not only a place of the oldest Vine in the world, it is also a capital of the largest Slovenian wine region of Štajerska (Styria) which is famous for elegant and registered white wines. Centuries of the regio...

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🟩 case study: Festival hontianskych chutí! 🥘

Exhibitors are demonstrating the preparation of their village-specific foods and beverages. The visitors are able to partake in the preparation of some food and, of course, they can also buy the food for consumption directly there or for taking away.

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“At the table with good friends and family you do not become old. “ (Italy) The title of this case can be freely translated as festival of tastes of Hont region. As the title says this is an event that is organised yearly in June. There are number of exhibitors there on the festival that … Fes...

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🟩 case study: Markthalle IX (Berlin)! 🥙

Markthalle IX’s most popular attractions are its Street Food Thursdays, where local food and beverage startups present and sell their products, and it's regularly organized thematic food and beverage events where visitors can participate in tastings and inform themselves about production and distribution as well as current food trends.

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“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” (Irish Proverb) Markthalle IX is one of the three surviving fourteen historical Berlin market halls built in the late nineteenth century that serve as food markets today. The others fell prey to the economic crises of the 1920s, wartime bombing and urb...

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🟩 case study: Peipsi Onion Route! 🧅

Although people sometimes wonder what is so special about an ‘Onion Road’, The Onion Route is in fact a chain of meandering villages on the shore of the Lake Peipus, inhabited both by Russians and Estonians living side by side, and which is famous for its rich cultural diversity.

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“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” (Irish Proverb) The route of the small villages on the shores of Lake Peipsi is called “Onion Road” not so far from Tartu. It is an area where ancient traditions are preserved and valued, so the communities have remained unchanged over time. Althou...

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🟩 case study: Douro Wine Route! 🍇

Douro Wine Routes, intends to highlight the natural, historical, cultural and religious heritage, gastronomy and enology offered by the region, but mostly their impact on wine production.

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“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” (Irish Proverb) The Douro Wine Route is inspired on a project to promote national tourism, known as Portugal Routes (Rotas de Portugal) which aims to be a showcase of the charms Portugal, and organizes national tourist offers in structural themes of re...

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🟩 case study: The Fair Market in Larissa! 🎡

Locals and tourists visiting the Fair Market enjoy this unique product, after shopping and walking to the amusement park. The Fair Market in Larissa is one of the longest-standing customs of the region, and it is an event with a long history and tradition.

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“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” (Irish Proverb) The Fair Market in Larissa is one of the longest celebrations of the region and an extroverted event, which is visited by citizens from all over Greece and abroad, while combining entertainment, tourism, trade, and consumption of food a...

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🟩 case study: Gulášmajster Bzovík! 🍜

A local festival and competitive event where many teams gather in the village of Bzovík to compete for the best goulash soup prepared in natural conditions in a wood-heated kettle. The competition is organised yearly and it is accompanied by a number of other activities attractive to tourists.

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“Life is too short to drink bad wine.” (France) The second case study is a local festival and competitive event where many teams gather in the village of Bzovík competing for the best goulash soup prepared in natural conditions in a wood heated kettle. Goulash soup is equally popular in Slovaki...

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🟩 case study: VIRGON! 🍷

The Virgona Agricultural Company was born to complete a long winemaking tradition, making its contribution to the enhancement and renewal of Salina’s wine production given the economic, social, historical and cultural importance that this sector has always had on the island.

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“Life is too short to drink bad wine.” (France) The Virgona Agricultural Company was born to complete a long winemaking tradition, making its contribution to the enhancement and renewal of Salina’s wine production given the economic, social, historical and cultural importance that this sector ...

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🟩 case study: Bodega de las Estrellas! 🍷

The Stars Winery is highly participative of local events and celebrations, bringing a taste of its finest wines to cultural life, some of which include harvest celebrations, guided visits, wine tasting, and many more.

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“Life is too short to drink bad wine.” (France) The winemaker family of the Star Winery dates as far as four generations ago, when vines started being grown in the Castille region in the XIX century due to the expansion of the phylloxera plague in the rest of Europe. The efforts of the first gen...

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🟩 case study: Midlands Beer Festival! 🍺

The Midlands Craft Beer Festival was originally conceived as a fund raiser for the Moate All Whites football club. Now it has been developed into an annual event in a small rural town in midlands Ireland.

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“Life is too short to drink bad wine.” (France) Back in 2015 there was a handful of new Craft Brewery’s popping up in Ireland. It is estimated that there were 63 microbreweries operating in Ireland at that time, of which 48 were production microbreweries (22 more than the previous year) and 15...

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🟩 case study: Maribor Culinary Route! 🧑‍🍳

Maribor is more and more recognisable on the map of cities that offer excellent wines and culinary experience. While the winemakers from the Maribor surrounding wine routes are reaching for medals at many famous wine competitions in Europe and on other continents, already for decades the culinary experts in the city are strengthening their image in recent years as well.

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“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.” (Guy Fieri) The story of the event or experience, how it started and evolved to its current form, ...

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🟩 case study: Norwich City of Ale – Norfolk! 🍻

During the Norwich City of Ale festival, you can meet the top beer writers, brewers, maltsters and sommeliers as they steer you through the styles, aromas and tastes of the region’s best beers. Try a food and beer pairing – or a pub treasure hunt – or a guided beer heritage tour.

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“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.” (Guy Fieri) Were it not for Covid 19, the Norwich City of Ale festival would have recently celebra...

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🟩 case study: Champagne Tour! 🍾

The Champagne Region counts around 320 House of Champagne, which create 30.000 jobs in this field. The Champagne Region attracts 7,3 million visitors: 3 million stay for a day, and 4,3 million are there for a long stay.

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🟩 case study: Panoramaweg Werderobst! 🍇

The main public event in the area is the Blossoming-Tree Festival (Baumblütenfest) in Werder, which takes place on the first weekend of May. For the interested, there are also occasions for hands-on courses in fuit-tree and vine pruning.

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“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” (Unknown) The story of the event or experience, how it started and evolved to its current form, when it started, what is unique about it, how popular the experience is with locals/visitors to the area etc… Ever since Frederic the Great encoura...

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🟩 case study: CANTINE NICOSIA! 🍇

Nicosia is a dynamic, modern and efficient company that looks towards the future, but without forgetting tradition. A long and exciting path towards quality, in order to produce wines that represent the finest in Sicilian enology.

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“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” (Unknown) Back in 1898 Francesco Nicosia, the great-grandfather of the current owner, decided to open his first wine shop in Trecastagni, on the eastern slope of Mount Etna. This was the golden age of Etna wines, which – even then – were ren...

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🟩 case study: Portuguese Vinho Verde! 🍷

Vinho Verde is a unique type of wine in the world. Literally Translated as Green Wine, its colour is anything but green, and makes more reference to being a young wine. The name refers to the natural characteristics of the region, which produce dense green foliage, one of the features that contributes towards the wine’s freshness and lightness.

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“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” (Unknown) History says that Vinho Verde was the first Portuguese wine to be exported to European markets. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the wines from the Minho Valley and the Lima Valley were regularly transported to northern Europ...

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🟩 case study: The Wild Atlantic Way! 🌊

Along the Wild Atlantic Way visitors have the choice to visit the unique landscapes and micro-climates of the west coast, its flora, fauna, caves and mines, incorporating activities such as whale and dolphin watching, exploring unique seascapes by boat as well as local food experiences.

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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” (Bernard Shaw) The Wild Atlantic Way, 2600 km in length, is one of the longest defined coastal route in the world. It winds its way all along the Irish west coast from the Inishowen Peninsula in the north down to the picturesque town of Kinsale,...

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🟩 case study: Stará Hora (Sebechleby)! 🍇

Stará Hora is in fact an area of traditional vineyards with a number of cellars situated in architecturally pleasing traditional houses.The village of Sebechleby is each year organising festival of wine harvesting in Stará Hora that is regularly attracting thousands of visitors.

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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” (Bernard Shaw) The story of the event or experience, how it started and evolved to its current form, when it started, what is unique about it, how popular the experience is with locals/visitors to the area etc… The first case study represents ...

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