Food related words in travel guides: A corpus-based analysis

The aim of the present study is to determine whether food is of paramount interest to foreign travellers or not. The study analyses food related words through a concordance analysis and their collocates. The corpus-based approach enables inferences about some semantic aspects of the vocabulary of gastronomy where sets of words, which refer to food and drinks, are considered essential to tourists. It is fascinating to see the most frequently occurring collocates in the specialized corpus which are: traditional dishes, Albanian cuisine, European cuisine, unique cuisine, tasting wine, Kokomani winery, Merlot wine, Kabernet wine, delicious dishes, enjoy dishes, offers, drink raki, taste wine, Italian dishes, rich cuisine, Albanian raki, fish restaurants, organic dishes and different restaurants. Thus, an examination of the concordance of food-related terms in the specialized corpus offers a better idea of how dishes are presented or the words with which they are patterned.