Abstract:

The aim of the study is to identify the extent to which the existing restaurants in Istanbul, which have many advantages in terms of 'Gastronomy Tourism', can use their potential and to compare the differences between the cities in other countries with similar criteria. In the study, the menus of 30 restaurants operating in the 1st-class restaurant category in the province of Istanbul have been reached via the Tripadvisor website. Through the found menus, the cultures in which the main meals in the menus of restaurants belong (Europe, Japan, Italy, France) were identified. The culture identified the main foods in line with the names of the restaurants they served and the expectations they created, the subject is that the foods made in the gastronomic tourism framework actually reflect the Turkish food culture in an appropriate way. In order for the evaluations to have a more objective perspective, the menus of 1st-class 10 restaurants in Paris and Rome, which have similar characteristics as the tourist reception capacity of the city of Istanbul in the world, the number of restaurants and the popularity of their countries in terms of gastronomy, were again reached through the Tripadvisor website and the menus were evaluated by the same criteria. The results of the research and analysis performed and evaluated in Istanbul 1. Class restaurants have been found to have not been fully seated according to the restaurants located in Rome and Paris in terms of sales and marketing, menu preference and the names of the restaurants used and the same assessments have been found to have done insufficient studies in terms of the activities mentioned.