KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 -- The ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) recently conducted a week-long ‘Workshop on Sustainable Tourism: Gastronomy Tourism’ in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
The workshop, ending Nov 23, was organised for the management-level stakeholders in tourism of the ASEAN Member States to learn cases of gastronomy tourism in the Prefecture. Twelve participants took part in the workshop.
The participants first received lectures on Japan’s recent overseas travel market trend and gastronomy tourism at Wakayama University. They also delivered presentations based on their respective country’s gastronomy tourism.
The group also visited gastronomy tourism sites in Wakayama Prefecture which were arranged with support of the Wakayama Prefectural Government, according to a statement.
The participants visited and experienced fruit picking, tuna bidding and tuna can making, a unique agritourism venue which used to be a school building and a traditional soy sauce manufacturer in Yuasa town, the birthplace of soy sauce.
In addition, the group also visited Tanabe City Kumano Tourism Bureau, which promotes the world heritage Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Route in a sustainable manner with the local community.
Gastronomy tourism provides a variety of experience-based activities which can be applied in the ASEAN Member States to further provide programmes for visitors to experience and know about food and culture of the Member States.
AJC will continue to make efforts to enhance sustainable tourism development in the ASEAN Member States by providing capacity-building programmes for tourism stakeholders by highlighting Japanese gastronomy tourism cases.
-- BERNAMA
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