Abstract:

Nutrition, which is a priority of people's needs, is also a fundamental motivation. Today, nutrition has become a destination traveling to taste a new meal and experience different flavours and flavours. This desire for experience is a factor that stimulates tourist activities that contribute to the development of the industry as part of gastronomic tourism. With the new world order, people are aware of the need for healthy nutrition to live a healthy life. The interest shown in healthy foods requires the awareness of the service sector about functional foods and, in response to this train, the development of new activities plans for the sector. With this study, some functional foods in the Turkish cuisine were introduced and the contribution to tourism was emphasized. In the study, a source scan was conducted to study the literature related to the subject and a compilation study was created. The most common problem in the study of literature is the insufficiency in the promotion and marketing activities of products. These problems in the promotion of local foods prevent functional foods from standing in front and negatively affect the awareness and spread of some foods.