Erik is the founder of the culinary 🍕 travel 🛩trade industry, and Executive Director of the World Food Travel Association, the world's leading authority on food and beverage tourism (aka culinary tourism, gastronomy tourism and turismo gastronómico). He is the publisher 📗 of Have Fork Will Travel, author of Culinary Tourism: The Hidden Harvest, and is also a highly sought strategist 🔀 and speaker 📣 around the world on gastronomy tourism. He has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Forbes, and on CNN, Sky TV, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, PeterGreenberg.com, and other leading media outlets.