Author(s)

Weng Yirou ¹, Luo Lanfan ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
² Party School of Chaozhou Committee of C.P.C, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Luo Lanfan

ABSTRACT

The Creative Cities Network created by UNESCO is a great model for urban transformation nowadays. Cities with unique gastronomic culture are expected to keep pace with international developments in the field of gastronomic creativity and to lead their local gastronomic culture to the world. In this paper, In accordance with the eight criteria specified by UNESCO for cultural assets in the field of gastronomic creativity in 2008, we analyze the applications from Bendigo and Portoviejo with the method of text analysis, Creative Cities of Gastronomy in 2019, to explore the changes in the evaluation criteria of the bids in recent years, and to revisit the elements of the evaluation. The result shows that proportion of the eight criteria of Creative Cities of Gastronomy in the declaration has largely changed with the shift of strategic objectives, from emphasizing local traditional culture to encouraging multiculturalism.Also, they focus more on the sustainability description of the local food industry, heritage and ecology.

KEYWORDS

Creative Cities of Gastronomy; Text Analysis; Evaluation Criteria

CITE THIS PAPER

Weng Yirou, Luo Lanfan, Analysis of the Evaluation Criteria of UNESCO Creative Cities of Gastronomy. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2024) Vol. 6: 55-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2024.060109.

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