World Culinary Tourism Summit

Nova Scotia hosting world culinary tourism summit.Join the foodie fun in Sept. 2010 in Halifax, NS.
by Kathryn Harley Haynes 2 April 2010
| Search for images of Canada at our Digital Asset Management site. Janice Ruddock figures it’s the seafood that clinched it. “In Nova Scotia, we’re all about the experience—with cooking, with the ocean and now the wines,” says the executive director of Taste of Nova Scotia. She is elaborating on the province’s selection to host the inaugural Culinary Tourism Thought Leadership World Summit & Consumer Marketplace this September. “There’s a passion for the freshest ingredients and the availability of amazing seafood.”

Coordinated by the International Culinary Tourism Association (ICTA), the Oregon (USA)-based authority on the industry, the two-day summit is expected to draw upwards of 300-500 culinary tourism leaders from around the world to Halifax, NS, to exchange ideas on the state of the industry and best practices for sustaining and growing it.

The Nova Scotia host committee—which in addition to Taste of Nova Scotia includes the Winery Association of Nova Scotia, the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Association of Chefs and Cooks, Slow Food Nova Scotia and several government departments and agencies—will be offering a selection of pre- and post-summit activities. Among the options for summit attendees will be wine tours to the Annapolis, Gaspereau and other vine-friendly valleys, cooking classes at renowned Trout Point Lodge of Nova Scotia (read more on Trout Point Lodge) and a period dinner at Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, a reconstructed, 18th-century fortified French town in North America.

Says Ruddock, “As the first summit, Nova Scotia will set the bar for future world culinary tourism conferences.”

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