CULINARY TRAVEL

This is interesting to observe how offbeat, luxury resorts are redefining our holiday goals. While culinary travel is not exactly a new phenomenon, it appears to be a lasting trend amid shifting holidaying goalposts, in a post-pandemic world.

- Vernika Awal

In the post-pandemic world, the concept of culinary or food tourism has, for good measure, emerged—and is here to stay. Through cuisine and flavours, travellers are today straddling the world, exploring new cultures and discovering hidden histories. For the most part, we as a generation no longer choose destinations based on locations, routes and seasons. Instead, an increasingly aware and sensitive urban audience is looking for greater value—something that is intrinsic to the very foundational ethos of culinary tourism.

Once you break down this new form of travel into simpler elements, you realise that the menu in front of you could very well be the map to places you didn’t even know of. In turn, this opens up avenues for hotels to offer a wider range of experiences, familiarising restaurant-goers with their surroundings before leading them to a saga of discovery in a remote land.

Perhaps an even bigger factor here is that with the passing of time, luxury hotels and resorts are joining the culinary tourism chain. These hotels, thanks to top chefs and teams that plan meals and restaurant themes meticulously, have emerged as top destinations for culinary travel in the country. On this note, here’s looking at the best culinary travel destinations across India, which will definitely get your vacation plans going.

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