Table 1.

A summary of different destination foodscapes.

Dimensions	Elements and Connotations	Globalized Recreational Foodscape	Staged Local Foodscape	Glocalized Foodscape	Authentic Local Foodscape	Overseas Ethnic Foodscape
Consumption grade	Price level and grade	Medium to high level of consumption	Medium to high level of consumption	Folk level of consumption	Folk level of consumption	Medium to high level of consumption
Physical environment	Functionality, location and decoration	Modern, creative and artistic cafeterias or dessert shops	Staging symbols of local representative culture, religion or environment	Standard decoration integrated with some local elements	Local markets or local, humble restaurants	Restaurants with strong ethnic and national symbols
Social interaction and ambiance	Tourists’ interaction with the locals, service personnel, other guests; or immersion within the social ambiance	Limited within ordering food with the service personnel, static gaze upon international tourists	Limited within ordering food with the service personnel, static gaze upon international tourists	Limited within ordering food with the service personnel, static gaze upon locals	Communicate with locals, immersion within the folklore, mundane life	Ordering food with the locals/service personnel; static gaze upon locals
Food and eating	ingredients, taste, healthy effect, appearance, hygiene, eating method/dining habits	Familiar dessert and drinks with creative and good-looking appearances, photo-taking	Local ingredients, Reformed taste	Standard food packaging and formula, with local special ingredients	Nonstandard hygienic conditions, local ingredients and authentic taste	Ethnic cuisine integrated with some local cooking style
Culture	various cultures in the spectrum of cultural distance	Global culture with local creative and arctic subculture	Local natural conditions, regional and historical culture	Global fast-food culture	Local folklore culture	Ethnic culture of different nations embedded in the destination
Tourist’s mixed experience	Familiarity- novelty spectrum	Experience within a familiar touristic clave with some exotic ambiance	Experience within a familiar environmental bubble with staged local culture	Experience within a familiar environmental bubble hybrid with some local exotics	Intense novelty within the authentic local	Intense familiarity with a small amount of locality/renewal of exotic experience