Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oana Diana Crîșmariu Author-Name-First: Oana Diana Author-Name-Last: Crîșmariu Author-Email: oanadianacrismariu@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Author-Name: Diana Dumitru Author-Name-First: Diana Author-Name-Last: Dumitru Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Author-Name: Gabriela Țigu Author-Name-First: Gabriela Author-Name-Last: Țigu Author-Email: gabriela.tigu@ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Title: From Izmir To Marrakech – Sustainable Tourism Through Slow Tourism And Gastronomy Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: 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 Classification-JEL: Z32, L83, Q01 Creation-Date: 2018 Year: 2018 Volume: 18 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol18/Crismariu.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2018-14