Food consumption of women during holidays: fit, healthy, or relaxed?

Authors

  • Caner Çalişkan Adıyaman University
  • Çiğdem Sabbağ Adıyaman University
  • Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu Nevsehir HBV University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/2238-2925.2020.v10.30147

Abstract

During holidays, what, why, and how do women consume? Women’s attitudes and thoughts about food consumption should be researched in terms of their social roles. However, the important role of women in holiday planning process makes women's food consumption preferences and also behaviours an important data source especially for tourism managers. This study focused on the impact of holidays on women’s food consumption. For this purpose, face-to-face interviews were carried out with 15 women participants, who spent two holiday periods during the previous year – summer and winter – in Adıyaman, Turkey. According to the results of the survey, women’s food consumption preferences and behaviours change during the summer and winter holiday periods.

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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 HBV 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, Tourism Management Perspectives, the Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, the International Journal of Hospitality Management, the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, the Journal of Vacation Marketing and Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. Dr. Dedeoğlu also serves as reviewer for leading tourism and hospitality journals, such as Tourism Management, Tourism Management Perspectives, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and the International Journal of Hospitality Management.

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Published

2020-09-06

How to Cite

Çalişkan, C. ., Sabbağ, Çiğdem, & Dedeoğlu, B. B. (2020). Food consumption of women during holidays: fit, healthy, or relaxed?. Anais Brasileiros De Estudos Turísticos, 10(1, 2 e 3). https://doi.org/10.34019/2238-2925.2020.v10.30147

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1, 2 e 3 (2020): Current Issues on Tourism and Thematic Issue: “Crisis and Uncertainty in Pandemic Times"

Section

ESTUDOS DE CASO / CASE STUDY / ANÁLISIS DE CASO

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