Tourism and food trails
Food tourism marketing: turn culinary interest into an itinerary
Food is one of the main reasons people pick a destination. Tour operators, destination marketing organisations and culinary routes can reach people on Amazing Food while they browse the dishes of a place. That is declared interest, not a segment assembled from demographic profiling.
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No contract and no minimum term. You pay only for real views.
Key takeaways
- Reach people browsing the restaurants and dishes of your destination.
- Narrow delivery to the categories your route is known for: seafood, wine, barbecue, street food.
- Target the destination, the cities nearby, a whole country or the world.
- Clicks arrive with UTMs, ready to measure in your own analytics.
Why a dish feed is a good place to sell a culinary trip
Someone comparing the best places for moqueca, carbonara or pastéis de nata is showing interest in a cuisine and in a place. For a food tour, a culinary route or a destination, that is a stronger signal than an age range or an inferred interest.
- Declared interest: targeting is based on the page being browsed (place and category), not on personal data.
- Category precision: limit the campaign to the categories that define your offer, so it appears where that cuisine is the search.
- Planners and visitors: both the people researching a destination before the trip and those already there browse its dishes.
How it works for tour operators and destinations
Use the banner format with a link to the route, the tour booking page or the destination guide. Banners are reviewed before going live. Recommended sizes are 1080×1200 px for the website and 1200×533 px for the app.
Combine area and categories. A wine route can target its region plus the large cities nearby, restricted to wine and regional-food categories. A national tourism campaign can run country-wide or worldwide.
Food tourism campaign ideas
Signature-dish routes
Promote a route built around the dish the region is famous for, restricted to that dish's category.
Food tours and market walks
Bookable tours targeted to the city itself, where visitors look for where to eat.
Wineries, breweries and producers
Tastings and farm visits targeted to the region and the nearest metro areas.
Destination campaigns
Tourism boards promoting a food calendar to the whole country or to their key source markets.
Day trips
‘One hour from you’ messages targeted to the large city near a smaller destination.
Hands-on experiences
Cooking classes and tastings for visitors. See cooking class marketing.
Budget and bid
Credits are prepaid, and each real view costs your bid, from 0.01 to 4.99 credits. Higher bids are shown first when ads compete. A campaign stops by itself when its budget runs out, so it can never overspend.
A practical way to start: one campaign for the destination itself and one for a source city, with the same budget. After a couple of weeks, the dashboard shows which one brought more clicks per credit.
Measuring interest and bookings
The dashboard shows real views, clicks, click-through rate, spend, a daily chart and breakdowns by location and by page type. UTM parameters on every click (campaign, city, category) let you follow tour bookings or guide downloads in your own analytics.
For destination campaigns, compare categories as well as places: which cuisine drew the most interest is useful for the next brochure, not only for the next campaign.
Launch checklist for food tourism
- Define the experience and the booking or information link.
- Choose the destination and the source cities, plus the categories that define the route.
- Make the image show the dish or the landscape, with the route name and the call to action.
- Set the bid and the budget and submit for review.
- Compare places and categories after the first weeks.
Frequently asked questions
Can a public tourism body advertise?
Yes, any organisation can create an account and run campaigns. Payment is currently by card, in credit packages. If your organisation needs invoicing, talk to the Amazing Food team before planning.
Can we reach people in another country who are planning a trip?
Targeting follows the pages being browsed, not where people live. To reach a source market, target the cities of that market with a message about your destination, or target your destination's pages, which planners browse from anywhere.
Is this based on personal data?
No. The ad appears according to the place and the category of the page, not according to a profile of the person.
Can a small route share the inventory with big brands?
Yes. Because targeting is by city, a small destination only pays for views in its own area, and you choose the bid.
