Tourism and enogastronomy in a world heritage site in the province of Jujuy, Argentina

Abstract

This article presents a relational analysis between tourism and enogastronomy in a world heritage site located in the northern sector of the Argentine Republic, inviting us to rethink complex processes that bring together productive practices, heritage activations and gastronomy innovations based on experiential tourism trends. Quebrada de Humahuaca is a geographical region of the province of Jujuy that was inscribed in 2003 on the list of world heritage properties, by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -UNESCO, as a cultural landscape, responding to criteria (ii), (iv) and (v). This region has diverse and appreciable natural and cultural assets that have been considered as potential resources based on its tourist attraction. In recent years, a change has been noticed in the food production practices that are developed in that region, altering some sectors of the protected landscape. This has raised a series of questions related to the enhancement of food heritage by local communities, the arrival of migrants of amenities and the gentrification processes that are developed within the framework of dynamics of tourist valorization of food and wine