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标题：The Social Architecture of Local Food Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Economic Development
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作者：Michael L. Dougherty ; Laura E. Brown ; Gary Paul Green 等
期刊名称：Journal of Rural Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2151-4178
出版年度：2013
卷号：28
期号：2
出版社：Southern Rural Sociological Association
摘要：Local food tourism¡ªculinary tourism with an explicit emphasis on local food systems¡ªis emerging as a "green" modelfor community economic development. However, do local food tourism networks constitute a net gain to communityeconomies in all contexts. This article explores that question through surveys and interviews with farmers, restaurateurs,and food tourists in three Wisconsin counties. Framing our discussion using the community capitals framework, we arguethat economic benefits do accrue to communities from participation in these networks, but the net gains are ambiguous.Specifically, involvement in local food tourism networks increases stocks of social and human capital, deepens marketingopportunities for participating enterprises, and confers a price premium for food marketed as local. However, there can besignificant transaction costs associated with participation, certain types of natural and cultural capital must prefiguresuccessful execution, and restaurateurs levy significant power over farmers within the local food network. These tradeoffsdemonstrate that growth in particular community capitals may not always be unequivocally good for communities