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The commercial forces behind a food destination: producer consolidation, ingredient prices, hotel group expansion, restaurant chains arriving in small towns, and tourism funding that promotes one region over another. Reporting connects each development to what a visitor pays or eats. For readers who like economics with the meal.
A growing number of tourism boards now pay Michelin six-figure licensing fees to send inspectors to their restaurants, and the payoff, as Boston, Pinellas County, and Virginia have each discovered, is far from guaranteed.
