Paradigm Changes in Rural Mountain Tourism as a Result of the Attractiveness Generated by Mountain Products and Local Gastronomic Points

For the “post-Covid era” our aim is to identify solutions for social resilience and the restorationof direct interpersonal contacts affected by the constraints of interaction and isolationestablished at national and international levels during the COVID 19 pandemic. An importantrole in achieving this goal is expected from the rural mountain tourism, which preservestraditional elements that mitigate the shocks of change during the transition to post-modernsociety and which can serve a special strategy.Relatively recently, a new form of support for rural mountain tourism has been established,gastronomic tourism, based on the valorization of mountain products and the foundation of thelocal gastronomic points. These increase the attractiveness of the rural mountain space byintensifying people's travels and interactions between hosts and guests.In this paper, our aim is to highlight how the interaction interface between the two parties ismodified, with local cultural support as a catalyst. Elements of cultural, emotional, and spiritualinteraction revealed that these have to be well prepared to reduce possible unpredictablenegative reactions in the host-guest relationship. In this form of tourism, the action movespredominantly to the householder's yard, which implies a voluntary invasion of the hostfamily's universe.In addition to the prepared food products, guests seek and want to find out information aboutthe host family, about culture, customs, local traditions, etc.Hosts care about their image and prepare an environment that is as attractive and ashospitable as possible.All of this requires efforts and compromises on the part of the hosts, by partially giving up theprivacy of their own households. Moreover, the host must have the ability to communicatefunny stories and histories to the guests, framed in elements of culture and civilization. Apertinent and well-founded study requires a specific theoretical approach to the phenomena tohighlight cultural and emotional particularities, to describe in detail elements of the domesticactivity continuum in order to transform them into elements of tourist attraction and tocapitalize on them in the diversity of hospitality.