Finger Lakes offers food, wine packages

With the opening of the New York State Wine and Culinary Center in Canandaigua this past June, the Finger Lakes Region is all “a-buzz” with plans to develop culinary tourism. Culinary tourism is a hot, new niche in cultural travel that blends food, beverages (particularly wine) and travel into a unique visitor experience that holds huge potential for development in the Finger Lakes tourism industry. Simply put, food and beverage are attractions just like a museum or an amusement park and thus can be marketed as a product that helps to differentiate businesses, regions and individual destinations. Moreover, it is available year-round, in any weather and at (almost) any time of the day.