Food Tourism as research object: analysis of publications in Brazilian journals (2005-2017)

Abstract This article aims to investigate the development of Food Tourism research by analyzing articles published in Brazilian tourism and hospitality journals listed in B5 or higher strata of Qualis CAPES evaluation; it identifies journals that have published articles on the subject; examines the distribution of articles per Qualis stratum, per journal, per year, and per topic/subtopic; identifies the methods used; characterizes the profiles of authors who write frequently on Food Tourism related topics. This is a qualitative study, based on content analysis (Bardin, 2011), with a corpus of 89 articles published between 2005 and 2017. Main results: Rosa dos Ventos and Turismo em Análise journals published the largest number of articles; 24.71% of the articles are in B1/Qualis stratum journals; 2017 was the year with the most publications (16.85%). Eight topics and 11 subtopics were identified, with emphasis on Gastronomy as Tourist Attraction and Beverage Tourism. Beverage Tourism/wine tourism was the most developed topic (28.09%). The method description is, in general, superficial, with predominance of qualitative research (92.14%). Bibliographical research and interviews are the most commonly used data collection strategies. Few researchers (13.20%) have published two or more articles on the subject.