The Importance of the Occupational Factors in Local Food Consumption Behavior

Caner ÇALIŞKAN; Çiğdem SABBAĞ; Bekir Bora DEDEOĞLU

doi:10.34019/2238-2925.2019.v9.13874

Authors

Caner ÇALIŞKAN Adıyaman University
Çiğdem SABBAĞ Adıyaman University
Bekir Bora DEDEOĞLU Nevsehir HBV University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0722-3392

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/2238-2925.2019.v9.13874

Abstract

In the context of tourism and regional development, local food consumption has become one of the popular research topics in recent years. Despite this importance, there are no studies specifically addressing the impact of the occupational factors on local food purchasing behavior, while the role of age, gender, education, income and belief in purchasing behaviors is among the demographic components of most of the researches. In this study, local food consumption behaviors of individuals from different occupations were investigated and results were evaluated from the perspectives of tourism, sustainability, regional identity and development. The research was conducted in Adıyaman province of Turkey, where the traditional production continues and the consumption of local food is widespread. As the results of the research, occupation have been influential on the local food purchasing behaviors of participants in the fields of housewifery, healthcare, agriculture and food. Moreover, the income also has been influential factor on the purchasing behavior of local food of self-employed and workers.

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Author Biographies

Caner ÇALIŞKAN, Adıyaman University

Dr. Caner ÇALIŞKAN is Assistant Professor and head of tourism management department in the Tourism Faculty of Adıyaman University. Dr. Çalışkan holds a PhD from the Social Sciences Institute of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University in Tourism Management and a Master’s degree in the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management from the Social Sciences Institute of Mustafa Kemal University. His research interests include tourism sociology, behavioural sciences and sustainable tourism.

Çiğdem SABBAĞ, Adıyaman University

Dr. Çiğdem SABBAĞ is Associate professor tourism management department in the Tourism Faculty of Adıyaman University, she received her master's degree in nutrition sciences in 2003 and she received her PhD in nutritional sciences in 2009, she appointed as assistant professor in 2010 and in 2015, she appointed as associate professor. She is still working in the Tourism Faculty of Adıyaman University. She is working nutrition and local food culture.

Bekir Bora DEDEOĞLU, Nevsehir HBV University

Dr. Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu earned a Ph.D. degree from in the Tourism Management department at Akdeniz University and now works in the Tourism Faculty at the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University (Turkey). His research interests include destination marketing, destination branding, tourist behavior, and hospitality marketing. He has published articles in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, the Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, the International Journal of Hospitality Management, and the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. Dr. Dedeoğlu also serves as reviewer for leading tourism and hospitality journals, such as Tourism Management, Tourism Management Perspectives, and the International Journal of Hospitality Management.

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