Las empresas alimentarias como nuevo motor del turismo industrial en la provincia de Córdoba: Análisis del perfil del turista

Abstract

The Province of Córdoba, is characterized, as being an area with the highest unemployment rates in Spain, and with a productive activity focused on primary and secondary sector. The Industrial Tourism (that on its leisure time visits manufacturing facilities, on use and disuse and want to know the old and new manufacturing processes) based on the gastronomy, can be an engine of economic recovery in times of crisis as the one that currently facing the country. On this paper, are analyzed the different gastronomic routes that exists in the province making a descriptive study of the profile of the industrial gastronomic tourist on the route of the “marzipan of Montoro” and the “anise and cream de Rute”, with the objective to identify the demand of this type of tourism and establish accurate measures to promote it, being able to bring positive effects as the employment generation on the tertiary sector to attend that demand and increase the income of the inhabitants of mentioned areas.