CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania cactus-2018-14 Events Z32, L83, Q01 From Izmir To Marrakech – Sustainable Tourism Through Slow Tourism And Gastronomy Crîșmariu Oana Diana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8557-1918 oanadianacrismariu@gmail.com Dumitru Diana Țigu Gabriela https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6189-8027 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania 15 12 2018 18 2 15122018 Copyright © 2018, The Author(s) 2018 The Author(s) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

The paper aims to present the existing situation in the countries of Turkey and Morocco, in particular in Izmir and Marrakech on how these cities have managed to promote their touristic offer by highlighting the local gastronomy and slow tourism, two components that are integrated by sustainable tourism. The paper presents some of the similarities and differences between the ways the two cities come to meet the needs of the tourists with regard to the local gastronomy, slow tourism and sustainable tourism. Based on the findings, the paper presents a successful model combining slow tourism, gastronomic tourism and sustainable tourism that could successfully be applied in other regions or countries.

 Keywords Sustainable tourism slow tourism gastronomy cittaslow

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