Gastronomi Bildirilerinin Değerlendirilmesi: Turizm Kongreleri Örneği 2013-2017 (Evaluation of Gastronomy Proceeding Papers: The Case of Tourism Congresses 2013-2017)

Abstract

The aim of research is investigating bibliometrically proceedings written in the field of gastronomy in tourism within the scope of the research. The research population consists of full text papers that are presented in tourism congress between the years of 2013-2017 in Turkey. In this qualitatively designed research, descriptive analysis has been adopted for the accessed data. Papers were analyzed in terms of specific bibliometric parameters by frequency and percent analysis through statistical package program. 285 papers on gastronomic themes were found in 26 different tourism congresses in 5 years’ period, with an average of 11 papers per congress and 57 papers per year with the research; and it was determined 682 different authors contributed to the presentation of them. The results show that Aydan Bekar as an author, in terms of the number of authors Balıkesir University and in terms of the number of papers Mersin University has contributed most to the congresses; about 87.4% of the papers were made cooperatively by at least two authors; 35.1% of them have been completed as academic research between universities by authors working in at least two different universities. It has been found that the most of the gastronomic themes discussed in the papers are in the field of “Gastronomy Tourism Marketing”.