Food tourism forum contributions pave the way for future success

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 Lima, Apr. 30. Ideas and contributions emerging from the 2nd UNWTO World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism have sown the seed to empower tourism industry in our country, but it will germinate only if Peruvians prove perseverance, Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva affirmed.

Inbound tourism has increased over the past five years and by the end of this presidential term it will have expanded more than 43%; as for gastronomic trips, we have gone from 8% to 20% in the same period, according to Promperu.

“Peruvian gastronomy has benefited the less favored actors across the value chain; for this reason, the combination between tourism and gastronomy poses many challenges for us to meet, and I’m sure we will,” she pointed out.

She said the country needs more roads, ports, airports and rural paths to link those communities with markets without losing their essence, “by introducing them with a fair value for the product or service they provide or intend to offer.”

“To us and the world, gastronomic tourism is a social inclusion tool, an instrument capable of incorporating all the country’s isolated sectors, with which tourism and gastronomy have already involved to overcome poverty,” she added.