Urban tourism and spatial segmentation in the field of restaurants: the case of Amsterdam

Terhorst P., ERKUŞ H.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH, vol.9, no.2, pp.85-102, 2015 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 9 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.1108/ijcthr-09-2014-0074
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.85-102
  • Keywords: The Netherlands, Bourdieu, Urban tourism, Quality uncertainty, Restaurants field, Segmentation of restaurants, Spatial segmentation, QUALITY UNCERTAINTY, FOOD, KNOWLEDGE, CONSUMPTION, COMPETITION, PIPELINES, CLUSTERS, IDENTITY, CUISINE
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Purpose - This paper aims to show that the field of restaurants in Amsterdam, a tourist-historic city par excellence where tourism and daily life of locals are spatially intimately intertwined, is nevertheless segmented according to types of restaurants and their micro-geography (passers-by streets versus side streets and "hidden places" in the city). The kernel of the authors' argument is that on the restaurant market, just as on markets of other cultural products, there is a lot of quality uncertainty because the standards of valuation are contested, differ between classes and lifestyle groups and vary in space and time.