Local seasonal food for thought: world's leading tourism minds in Margaret River
The world’s leading tourism academics will feast on Margaret River’s best local produce at a dinner hosted at the White Elephant Beach Café on Thursday, February 4 as part of Food, Wine and China: A Tourism Perspective, an international tourism symposium.
The two-day symposium at Margaret River’s Curtin University campus features over 20 keynotes, sessions and workshops that will discuss food and wine tourism in relation to attracting Chinese visitors to the region.
Margaret River Hospitality Group (MRHG) Managing Director Anthony Janssen said that it was an honour for the White Elephant Beach Café to be chosen to host the important tourism industry dinner.
“With China being such a huge and growing tourism market, it makes good business sense for industry leaders to discuss and learn how to attract more Chinese visitors to Margaret River,” Janssen said.
The social highlight in the Symposium program will be the dinner prepared by MRHG Executive Chef Tony Howell.
“The menu we’ve put together is the South West on a plate – the local and seasonal ingredients will showcase the exceptional quality of produce we have in the region,” the award-winning chef said.
“We’re really fortunate to have access to some of the best produce in the world, it makes my job as a chef so rewarding. But at the same time, I respect our produce and prepare it in a way that allows it to star on the plate.
“We’ll be preparing ten dishes for eighty or so guests, including the Tourism Minister – I hear he likes to cook so I’m hoping he might pop into the kitchen to give me a hand,” Howell quipped.
The menu will include Esperance scallops, Pemberton Marron, Margaret River venison, locally made tofu, Arkady lamb, McHenry Hohnen pork, Augusta whiting, locally grown vegetables and herbs, Yallingup Wood Fired bread and Bahen and Co chocolate.
Food, Wine and China: A Tourism Perspective is organised by Curtin University’s Tourism Research Cluster in collaboration with the Asia Business Centre and will take place on February 4 and 5 at Curtin University Margaret River campus. It has attracted leading tourism academics from interstate and overseas including United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand.
Topics include travel barriers for Chinese wine tourists, the importance of food events, an Italian perspective in response to Chinese wine tourists, an inbound tourism operator’s perspective and Chinese wine tourists in France. Tourism WA’s Taste 2020 Strategy will also be presented.
For more information about the symposium, visit http://business.curtin.edu.au/our-research/conferences/2016-trc-symposium/
The Margaret River beachside cafe, with its magnificent view over Gnarabup Bay, is open seven days per week for coffee, breakfast and lunch, with an alfresco deck and an 80sqm indoor area.
The White Elephant Beach Café is open seven days from 7.30am until mid-afternoon and offers free wifi.
The world’s leading tourism academics will feast on Margaret River’s best local produce at a dinner hosted at the White Elephant Beach Café on Thursday, February 4 as part of Food, Wine and China: A Tourism Perspective, an international tourism symposium.
The two-day symposium at Margaret River’s Curtin University campus features over 20 keynotes, sessions and workshops that will discuss food and wine tourism in relation to attracting Chinese visitors to the region.
Margaret River Hospitality Group (MRHG) Managing Director Anthony Janssen said that it was an honour for the White Elephant Beach Café to be chosen to host the important tourism industry dinner.
“With China being such a huge and growing tourism market, it makes good business sense for industry leaders to discuss and learn how to attract more Chinese visitors to Margaret River,” Janssen said.
The social highlight in the Symposium program will be the dinner prepared by MRHG Executive Chef Tony Howell.
“The menu we’ve put together is the South West on a plate – the local and seasonal ingredients will showcase the exceptional quality of produce we have in the region,” the award-winning chef said.
“We’re really fortunate to have access to some of the best produce in the world, it makes my job as a chef so rewarding. But at the same time, I respect our produce and prepare it in a way that allows it to star on the plate.
“We’ll be preparing ten dishes for eighty or so guests, including the Tourism Minister – I hear he likes to cook so I’m hoping he might pop into the kitchen to give me a hand,” Howell quipped.
The menu will include Esperance scallops, Pemberton Marron, Margaret River venison, locally made tofu, Arkady lamb, McHenry Hohnen pork, Augusta whiting, locally grown vegetables and herbs, Yallingup Wood Fired bread and Bahen and Co chocolate.
Food, Wine and China: A Tourism Perspective is organised by Curtin University’s Tourism Research Cluster in collaboration with the Asia Business Centre and will take place on February 4 and 5 at Curtin University Margaret River campus. It has attracted leading tourism academics from interstate and overseas including United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand.
Topics include travel barriers for Chinese wine tourists, the importance of food events, an Italian perspective in response to Chinese wine tourists, an inbound tourism operator’s perspective and Chinese wine tourists in France. Tourism WA’s Taste 2020 Strategy will also be presented.
For more information about the symposium, visit http://business.curtin.edu.au/our-research/conferences/2016-trc-symposium/
The Margaret River beachside cafe, with its magnificent view over Gnarabup Bay, is open seven days per week for coffee, breakfast and lunch, with an alfresco deck and an 80sqm indoor area.
The White Elephant Beach Café is open seven days from 7.30am until mid-afternoon and offers free wifi.
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