Food tourism and regional development : an introduction / C. Michael Hall & Stefan Gössling -- Value creation in sustainable food networks : the role of tourism / Jan-Henrik Nilsson -- Developing regional food systems : a case study of restaurant-customer relationships in Sweden / Stefan Gössling & C. Michael Hall -- Growing tourism from the ground up : drivers of tourism development in agricultural regions / Michelle Thompson & Bruce Prideaux -- The role of regional foods and food events in rural destination development : the case of Bario, Sarawak / Samuel Adeyinka-Ojo & Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore -- Local foods, rural networks, and tourism development : a comparative study between Michigan, USA and the North Midlands, Ireland / Cecilia Hegarty & Deborah Che -- Japanese obsession to noodles and regional development : the udon noodle tourism phenomenon in Japan / Sangkyun Kim -- "Modernology", food heritage and neighbourhood tourism : the example of Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / Sidney C. H. Cheung & Jiting Luo -- Regional economic development through food tourism : the case of AsiO Gusto in Namyangju City, South Korea / Timothy Lee & Jang-Hyun Nam -- Consuming the rural and regional : the evolving relationship between food and tourism / Paul Cleave -- Food tourism and place identity in the development of Jamaica's rural culture economy / Ernest Taylor & Moya Kneafsey -- Gastronomy does not recognize political borders / Marisa Ramos Abascal -- Differences in wine tourism development : description and illustrations from two Old World cases / Elsa Gatelier -- Does regionality matter? : the experience in Ireland / John Mulcahy -- Craft beer, tourism and local development in South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson -- Cheese tourism : local produce with protected designation of origin in the region of Galicia, Spain / Francesc Fusté Forné -- Barriers and constraints in the use of local foods in the hospitality sector / Hiran Roy, C. Michael Hall & Paul Ballantine -- Culinary collisions : the vision of local food use collides with daily restaurant practice / Lotte Wellton, Inger M. Jonsson & Ute Walter -- Conclusions : food tourism and regional development : new localism or globalism? / Stefan Gössling & C. Michael Hall