Local and International Trends in Hospitality and Gastronomy

Research methodology

In the framework of the project, a comprehensive research has been realized. This included Delphi research, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and student survey, all of them elaborated on international level. This paper is based on the results of the semi-structured interviews (altogether 77 stakeholders in four countries) conducted during Spring-Autumn 2017. Interviews addressed two target groups, namely small wine producers, and policy makers or including other stakeholders involved in the sector. Interviews were delivered using a semi- structured interview format. For both groups, the same research themes have been explored, by defining questions according to the profiles:

1. 
   Perceived difficulties of small wineries in disadvantaged areas, particularly in relation to the market;
   
2. 
   Perceived potential of the cooperation with higher education institutions and other stakeholders;
   
3. 
   Perceived potential for territorial development;
   
4. 
   Perceived skills mismatch between the company needs and the newly graduates workers (also not related to hard skills).
   

Table 1 Number of interviews with wineries and policy-makers

	Austria	Greece	Italy	Hungary
Wine makers	10	14	26	10
Policy makers	6	5	5	5

Source: The Wine Lab – Edited by the authors