This paper is the result of research undertaken into the relationship between quality agriculture and wine-and-food tourism on the Apennines of central and southern Italy. Food is not merely a source of nourishment: depending on production methods, food can also become a cultural reference point, an element of regional development and a tourist resource. This occurs with olocalo food, representing a model of production and consumption which suggests a strong link with the region in which the food is produced. In the marginal mountainous regions of central Italy, there is an important productive segment involving motivated and innovative entrepreneurs, regardless of the public sector that is not always up to the situation. Tourism linked to quality agriculture has not only proved to be an economic lever but a form of protection of a territory that is fragile and at risk; it is a sort of contemporary sustainable development. The process is at the initial phases and in need of public support according to a bottom-up approach

To cite this article: Armando Montanari (2009) Geography of taste and local development in Abruzzo (Italy): project to establish a training and research centre for the promotion of enogastronomic culture and tourism, Journal of Heritage Tourism, 4:2, 91-103, Food is not merely a source of nourishment but also one of survival for human beings. Depending on production methods, food can also become a cultural reference point, an element of regional development and a tourist resource. This occurs with "local" food, representing a model of production and consumption that suggests a strong link with the region in which the food is produced. Over the last few years, the field of geographical studies has seen the rise of a specialised branch -the geography of taste -concerned with the study of links between the production of food, seen as a phenomenon of organisation of production, and the territory of reference. The production of food with these qualitative characteristics engages all five senses, assumes cultural significance and thus represents an element of emotional richness -the "gaze" -capable of being transformed into the tourist attraction defined in this paper as the "taste of geography". These phenomena have been studied in a region of Italy -Abruzzo -in order to obtain the necessary data to plan a training and research centre for the promotion of enogastronomic culture and tourism.

Italy and Spain are two countries with important migration traditions, yet very little research has been done on movements between these two Southern European countries. In this paper, the main research question concerns the determinants of migration and, in some cases, return of young Italians and Spaniards. Based on an analysis of the transcripts of 69 in-depth interviews, we survey migrants' motivations and expectations, their economic and social integration and their future plans, and thereby attempt to understand the specific features of this "horizontal" mobility.The research results find little weight for a purely economic rationale behind the choice of Italians and Spaniards to move to the other country. What seems to be important are two factors acting in combination: (a) the "affinity factor" between the two countries, including the relative ease of learning the language, the consequent frequency and intensity of contact with members of the host population, and the result therefore of "feeling comfortable" during their stay abroad; (b) the lubricating effect of free movement. However, the migration relationship between the two countries is not fully reciprocal and there is one major element of asymmetry. Although experiences of social and cultural integration are positive in both cases, differences in the socio-economic context, especially the labour market and cost of living, help to explain the imbalance in the two-way flows, including returns, which is positive for Spain and negative for Italy. KEYWORDS mobility motivations, return motivations, young Italians, young Spaniards, youth migration, youth mobility 1 | INTRODUCTION Personal mobility in the European Union (EU) space is the "fourth freedom" of EU citizens and it goes together with an EU integrated labour market (Favell, 2014). As a consequence of this political framework young Europeans, free to move, are "liberated": from the national rules and local traditions characterising the places they originate from; from "the provinces, the intolerant, the xenophobic, the small-minded. From persecution. From ingrained tradition, hierarchy, privilege, thoughtless social reproduction. From other people's norms" (Favell, 2008: 5). Favell and Recchi (2011) show that spatial mobility brings social mobility for young EU citizens originating from Eastern European member countries, whereas "social fluidity and social reproduction" coexist in (from study or unemployment into work, and from family dependency to independent living), the economic and social integration of the migrants and their future plans. First, we will address the results by group, and then we will proceed with the discussion and main conclusions. | METHODOLOGYTo answer these questions and generate relevant data, we relied mainly on in-depth interviews, averaging around 1 hour in length, with 69 research participants aged 22-39 years at the time of interview (see Table 1). Two criteria were imposed to define the sample: the migration abroad had to have taken place after age 18 and b...

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