IV Foro de Gastronomía Aragón 09 - INFORMACIÓN GENERAL

GENERAL INFORMATION

Development III Gastronomy Forum

BACKGROUND AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE III FORUM

Initial reflection.

Nobody doubts the importance and relevance of gastronomy in the development of quality tourism.
Gastronomy is the second most important reason for tourism.
In Aragon, a frontier land of consensus between north and south and a symbol of piece and harmony, is, of the four cultures, the most ideal place to reflect on gastronomy. Residents of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Navarre, Valencia: all of them producers and creators of globally renowned cuisine.
The 2009 edition comes on the back of Expo Zaragoza 2008, which confirms the foregoing, and of three completed editions of the FORUM.

Background

Aragon Government celebrates its X ANNIVERSARY by working on gastronomy. And it is doing so in a systemised and orderly manner.
It all forms part of a large strategy which began in 1999.
Year 1999. I Aragon Gastronomy Forum.
Year 2000. II Aragon Gastronomy Forum.
Year 2001. Creation of the Aragon Commission of Gastronomy and Catering.
Years 2002 – 2004. Carrying out of DAFO analysis and start of the First Edition of the Aragon Gastronomy Plan.
Year 2005. Development of the I Edition of the Aragon Gastronomy Plan.
Year 2006. Development of the II Edition of the Aragon Gastronomy Plan.
Year 2007. Carrying out of the III Gastronomy Forum.
Year 2008. Development of the III Edition of the Aragon Gastronomy Plan.

PRESENT

Now in 2009 we have decided to set up the IV Gastronomy Forum.
And we are doing so from a more comfortable position, since we now have the Aragon gastronomy map duly ordered and agreed upon.
We count on the support, complicity and collaboration of all the culinary agents: gastronomy academy, cooks, maitres d'hôtel, sommeliers, tapas bars. Annual collaboration agreements have been signed with them for many years.
And, of course, business organisations such as HORECA and the Catering Schools.
There are also several agreements signed with the University of Saragossa with regards to gastronomy and culinary research.
Moreover, all of this is backed up by the corresponding annual publications.
This IV Forum can be seen as the colophon, the continuation of the hugely successful III Aragon Gastronomy Plan.

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