Culinary Tourism News
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Article about our Celebrity Chef Harry in El Nuevo Dia [Puerto Rico]
2nd February 2012
Our celeb Chef Harry is getting more press. Way to go Harry! You can read the latest article from Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Dia here. (just scroll down the page when the PDF opens).
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Be our Valentine this month - and save 10% plus goodies...
1st February 2012
Be our Valentine this month and save 10% plus other goodies in our store. Valentine's Day takes place on February 14. Whether you celebrate it or not, it's a great opportunity for a little love fest. We love our members and we know you love us. We're feeling a little lovey-dovey right now so we're making the following offers available to you - only during the month of F...
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WELCOMING CELEBRITY CHEF HARRY PAGANCOSS TO OUR FAMILY
29th January 2012
Chef Harry Pagancoss Joins International Culinary Tourism Association as Spokesperson January 28, 2012 (Atlanta, GA, USA) – Internationally recognized television culinary personality, Harry Pagancoss, has teamed up with the International Culinary Tourism Association (ICTA), the world's foremost authority on culinary travel, to promote culinary cultures around the world, gourmet travel and upcoming portal FoodTrekker as c...
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drafting new culinary tourism thought leadership forum
25th January 2012
We've just started drafting a new forum concept that will help tourism offices and food branding projects. The impetus for creating such a forum is to work together and learn from each other as we find new ways to survive together and remain relevant in an increasingly busy and distracting world. It is our view that we can all get ahead much further by working together, than each of us working alone. We are not competitors with each other...
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30th December 2011
This year we introduced one new product – the Seven Spoons culinary experience certification. We also updated our certification program modules. We eliminated paid membership dues and paid chapter dues. We also canceled for this year the 2011 State of the Culinary Tourism Industry report. We plan to renew the industry report once the global economy impr...
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30th December 2011
Our new tagline, “Preserving & promoting the world’s culinary cultures,” has proven to be quite popular. Times have changed and associations need to change to. The greatest threat we see currently in our industry is the threat to local culinary cultures. Chains are swallowing up not just consumers’ food expenditures, but local culinary expression while drowning local culinary creativity. Already, burgers and coffee...
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NO MORE CHAPTER OR MEMBERSHIP FEES
26th December 2011
We've made the decision to move away from organized chapters and let groups self-organize on both the new culinarytourism.org and foodtrekker.com. Therefore you could have a Washington state culinary tourism group - for free. Or you could have a Washington Apple Lovers Group - Real Washington Apples - or something like that. You could even have local culinary tourism groups. Your choice - as many groups as you want to start or join. No cos...
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SMALL CHANGE 4 SMALL BUSINESS CAMPAIGN ON HOLD
20th December 2011
This year we launched our Small Change for Small Business campaign. The idea of the campaign is to build a fund to support worth initiatives that help preserve and promote one of the world’s culinary cultures. The project provides for both strategic counsel support, as well as a limited amount of financial support. We’ve been in discussion with a couple of worthy projects, but none has been chosen yet. To date, contributions to our...
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20th December 2011
As our Association evolved this year, two of our staff members chose to move into new positions. First, long-time team member Melody Johnson moved from the Community Manager role into a Coach role for the US states of Oregon and Washington. This move will enable Melody to work at home and focus specifically on developing culinary tourism programs in the geographic areas near her. Project Manager Stacey Beaver who worked for us in New Zea...
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20th December 2011
With the world changing so rapidly around us, we knew that it was a year for change. If organizations are to grow, they must evolve. That’s exactly what the Association did this year. We instigated a major review of all of our programs and internal systems. You’re starting to reap some of the benefits of those changes already: massively updated and social-enabled website that is much easier to use; elimination of member...
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