Food Tourism as research object: analysis of publications in Brazilian journals (2005-2017)

Abstract This article aims to investigate the development of Food Tourism research by analyzing articles published in Brazilian tourism and hospitality journals listed in B5 or higher strata of Qualis CAPES evaluation; it identifies journals that have published articles on the subject; examines the distribution of articles per Qualis stratum, per journal, per year, and per topic/subtopic; identifies the methods used; characterizes the profiles of authors who write frequently on Food Tourism related topics. This is a qualitative study, based on content analysis (Bardin, 2011), with a corpus of 89 articles published between 2005 and 2017. Main results: Rosa dos Ventos and Turismo em Análise journals published the largest number of articles; 24.71% of the articles are in B1/Qualis stratum journals; 2017 was the year with the most publications (16.85%). Eight topics and 11 subtopics were identified, with emphasis on Gastronomy as Tourist Attraction and Beverage Tourism. Beverage Tourism/wine tourism was the most developed topic (28.09%). The method description is, in general, superficial, with predominance of qualitative research (92.14%). Bibliographical research and interviews are the most commonly used data collection strategies. Few researchers (13.20%) have published two or more articles on the subject.

摘要
本研究旨在通过分析收录于Qualis CAPES评价体系B5及更高层级的巴西旅游与酒店学期刊中的论文，探究美食旅游（Food Tourism）研究的发展脉络。研究识别出刊载该主题相关成果的期刊，考察了论文在Qualis层级、期刊、发表年份以及主题/子主题维度的分布特征，梳理了研究所采用的方法体系，并刻画了高频发表美食旅游相关主题论文的作者群体画像。

本研究为质性研究，基于内容分析法（Bardin, 2011），研究语料为2005年至2017年间发表的89篇学术论文。

主要研究结果如下：《Rosa dos Ventos》与《Turismo em Análise》刊载的该主题论文数量最多；24.71%的论文发表于Qualis层级为B1的期刊；2017年的论文发表量最高，占比达16.85%。本研究共识别出8个一级主题与11个二级主题，其中以作为旅游吸引物的美食（Gastronomy as Tourist Attraction）与饮品旅游（Beverage Tourism）为核心研究方向；饮品旅游/葡萄酒旅游为发展最为成熟的主题，占比达28.09%。整体而言，现有研究对研究方法的描述较为浅显，其中质性研究占比达92.14%，占据绝对主导地位；文献研究与访谈法是最常用的数据收集策略。仅有13.20%的研究者累计发表过2篇及以上该主题的学术论文。