CULINARY TOURISM INFLUENCE IN DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM AREAS.

The aims of the paper is analyze culinary activity towards encouragement of tourism different areas development, because Albanian offers many tourism potential. Tourism potential is not only physic concept but, an environment when development tourism with whole its dimensions, among which is culinary tourism. Culinary tourism development provides developing perspectives for tourism areas due to young age of local population, quality and bio area products and admirable nature. Culinary tourism has researchers attracted attention. In this paper will handle some culinary tourism problematic focus on cheese tourism in Albania. Based on the interviews with raw materials producers, kitchen managers and leaders of local government, we have selected influencing factors in cheese tourism, which enable drafted of sectoral and development strategies in different tourism areas. Data analysis collected from terrain has enabled to identify the estimating dimensions of cheese tourism. Majority part of estimating dimensions is related to personnel job quality that are taken culinary. Findings offers important orientations for cheese tourism develop from general and local point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]