Resumen de Food safety as an indicator of hospitality in tourism

Cláudia Mesquita Pinto Soares, Carlos Costa

• The travel experience can be translated as the amalgam of the tourism destination that is directly associated with the main items of the trip: accommodation, food, and transport. This document argues that food possesses a special characteristic that influences the cultural experience of a destination as an indicator of hospitality. Well receiving and hospitality are commonly explained as the practice of receiving visitors that drives business, and especially in the food industry. This paper presents food security as the quality of hospitality and from our point of view as an indicator of the perceived experience by the visitor and also as an indicator if hospitality in a tourism destination