Identifying Factors affecting the Success of Pull Marketing in Food Tourism: Meta Synthesis

Iran has many unique capabilities in the field of food tourism and can compete with many countries in the industry and own a brand of some foods around the world. Therefore the present study seeks to identify the factors affecting the success of traction marketing in food tourism. The present study is developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive-exploratory in terms of the data collection method. The statistical population consists of authentic foreign articles in 5 databases that were accessible to the researcher, including 50 articles related to the research topic, which were selected as samples. The method of sampling was non-random (purposive), and the data collection tools for the study are documents and papers. Validity was assessed by content validity, and reliability was estimated using Kappa coefficient, which was verified. The selected researches were entered into Max Kioda software for codification and were using Max Kioda software. The findings of the study suggest that in order to be successful in pull marketing in food tourism, one must consider food characteristics such as scent and taste, physical evidence like prospect, behind-the-scenes factors such as culture, history and value, ease of travel to destination including access and cost, additional destination services such as guides, mixing activities and hobbies, destination attractions such as food events, shopping areas, dining and catering places, and finally promotional actions such as media and advertising.