What is wine tourism according to Wikipedia

The wineries and wine tourism is one type of tourism dedicated to promoting and managing the wealth of a particular wine region. It is related to culinary tourism, cultural (architecture, art) and health and beauty (wine therapy). Tourists know every wine region through the wine tasting and visiting wineries and vineyards.

Wine tourism in Spain

Appellations of Origin and wineries have introduced this term in its offer servicios.Es difficult to estimate the total number of tourists who visit wineries in Spain every year. There are estimated 1.5 million visits in 2008. This figure is still modest when compared with figures from other countries or regions, as the case Napa Valley, with over 4 million visitors a year. Spain offers an interesting wine scene, with the largest expanse of vineyards in the world in number of hectares of vineyards and a provision that is sometimes strange to visitors from other producing areas: the provision of glass, which facilitates the development of the vines in places warm temperatures to be covered clusters among the leaves. The diversity of the architecture of the wineries of Spain is also an element of interest for the development of wine tourism: white wine in Castilla la Mancha, land or underground cellars Castilian Leon, the farmhouse type houses in Catalonia, etc. A tradition of tunnels, joins a large expansion in recent times with the construction of warehouses by iconic names such as Norman Foster. The Wine tourism in all its definitions, admittedly provides great opportunities in a host country for tourists as Spain and is the third largest producer of wine mundo.es recent years have appeared a number of private initiatives, both on the part of wineries adding museums, spas and hotels and restaurants to its offers, as part of travel agencies and web sites that seek to promote public initiatives enoturismo.Dentro, find Wine Routes of Spain that brings together a total of 17 routes : Bullas (Murcia), Jumilla (Murcia), La Mancha, the Route of Wine and Brandy de Jerez, Ronda wine route, DO Sierras de Málaga, sub Serrania de Ronda, Montilla-Moriles, Navarra, Rías Baixas, Rioja Alava (Spain), Somontano (Aragon), Tacoronte-Acentejo (Canary Islands), Route of Wine and Cava del Penedès (Cataluña), Bank of Duero (Castilla y León), Rioja (La Rioja), Condado de Huelva, Ribeiro (Galicia), Utiel-Requena (Comunidad Valenciana) and layer-Daute-Isora (Canary Islands).