Thailand, India and China should be the top destinations for those
backpacking tourists with an appetite for excellent food, it has been claimed.
Good tourist guides are often an excellent place for the culinary tourist to start, who will be able to find out the best places to titillate their taste buds on a budget.
Frances Tuke, spokesperson for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta), recommended Italy, France Spain, Thailand, India and China as the best place for food lovers to go on holilday.
"People are very interested to find out what [the food] is like in these destinations," she added.
Research by the World Travel Market indicates that more than half of tourists rank eating traditional dishes as a "very important" part of their holiday.
As many as 83 per cent claim to deliberately miss scheduled meals at restaurants to sample the local cuisine.
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