Role of Wild Food Plants in Culinary Tourism Development of District Mandi Himachal Pradesh

Tara Devi¹ , Vijay Sen²

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.6 , pp.14-38, Dec-2020

Online published on Dec 31, 2020

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Abstract :
Food plays manifold role in the travel plans of holiday makers to choose any tourist destination. People love to experience local tradition and culture through authentic cuisine making culinary tourism an important discipline of tourism management. Culinary tourism is a growing trend in tourism industry as travelers are now becoming increasingly focused and passionate on defining cuisine as a true artistic expression of a state, region or country’s culture. In present scenario culinary tourism includes full range of experiences, cooking classes, street food, wild food, specialty restaurants, dhabas, wineries and many more. There is something for everyone in the cuisine tourism industry. District Mandi of Himachal Pradesh has tremendous potential as culinary tourism industry because there are various local wild food items, which are prepared by local peoples and served to tourist coming from all over the world. District Mandi geographically comes under Western Himalayan region, is with rich floristic diversity known for its rich nutritive and medicinal value. The local cuisines prepared from wild plants here can promote this area as a favorite tourist destination. Wild food plants like Morchella esculenta-Guichchhee, Myrica esculenta-kaphal, Dioscorea belophylla -Taradee, Syzygium cumini- Jaamun, Punica grantatum – Daadu, Cordia obliqua - Lasura, Rhododendron arboretum – Buraans and Diplazium esculentum- Lingad are known to have high market value. These are sold at high price, locally, nationally or internationally. So, can be a good source of earning for local people and will be helpful in entrepreneurship development and rural prosperity by enhancing socio-economic status of local people of Mandi District. So present study has been undertaken to promote 30 important delicious cum medicinal local wild food plants of the district Mandi that can attract tourist from all over the world and can help to promote this region of state as a favorite cuisine tourism destination.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Cuisine, Wild Food, Culture, Tourist, Promotion, Socio-economic

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