Where can you find experienced guides for culinary tours? Will the pandemic’s uptick in home cooking spur a surge in culinary travel requests? What are some destinations that aren’t known for their food, but should be? All of this and more in this episode of Trade Secrets, when co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada delve into the world of culinary travel with Rani Cheema of Cheema’s Travel. 

In this episode:

1:05 - Meet Rani, who specializes in sending clients on culinary adventures.
1:45 - Where can you find experienced culinary arts guides?
5:22 - What kind of budget do most tourists have for culinary tours? And Rani’s take, which, she cautions, you may not like.
10:21 - Don’t forget to factor in travelers’ stamina when it comes to culinary tours.
11:57 - People have been at home for more than a year. Many have taken on home cooking projects. Will this spur a surge in culinary travel requests?
13:29 - Will travelers with dietary restrictions have trouble in destinations around the world?
16:20 - Where are some off-the-beaten-path places to learn about, and enjoy, food around the world?
20:45 - Should you attract tourists with typical dishes from a region, or with typical dishes for an entire country?


Further resources:
For more on Rani - A taste for travel
The World Food Travel Association
Experiential culinary outings enrich advisors and clients
Discovering Athens’ best food spots with Athens insiders
A guide to culinary tourism’s top travel trends
Travel Weekly’s Focus on Culinary Travel, looking at changes nearly one year after the pandemic began
Tour operators feed travelers’ hunger for ‘Bourdain effect’ experiences
Agents have several paths for culinary-travel knowledge (scroll to the end of this Focus on Culinary Travel)
Jamie’s favorite sourdough cookbook author, Bryan Ford
Jamie’s pandemic bakes

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