Culinary Trails as an Example of Innovative Tourist Products

Culinary trails have developed in response to the increasingly common trend of eating out due to changing lifestyles in communities. Travelling inspired by cooking is an interesting phenomenon in Polish tourism. Healthy food and exploration of new culinary regions is increasingly often becoming an important reason for travelling. The aim of the article is to present the definition of culinary tourism in the light of scientific literature and to indicate examples of products of this tourism in Poland. Another aim of the article is to present the essence of culinary tourist trails and show selected examples based on our own study. The second part of the article includes an analysis of the results of our study based on a questionnaire survey conducted on a group of 300 respondents. The summary includes conclusions from the study.