Culinary Tourism in Spain: Got Tapas?

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Culinary Tourism? What’s that? It’s something that the company that I work for is starting up in Korea. So far, it has been going pretty well. It’s nice to see that other people are doing it as well. Here is a woman in Spain doing tours for tapas. The whole idea is that you have an insider’s tour of Seoul. You can read about our tour offerings here.

Cristina Alonso holds a doctorate in environmental engineering, has worked as a researcher in the U.S. and taught math at a university in Spain. Now she’s giving me some advice from her latest profession: “If you see a lot of locals, you know they’re here for something,” she says. “They’re the ones who talk loudly… see what tapas they’re eating.”

The 44-year-old Ms. Alonso, a native Spaniard, has abandoned engineering in favor of tapas tourism—taking clients around tapas bars in Spain. A private tour costs €95 ($127) a person including food and wine. “You relate closely to people,” she says about her job switch. “If you work as a researcher as I did, you see nothing.”

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Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.