The book Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism: 15 Case Studies from Around the World, co-written by two of the Universitat de Barcelona Business School members, Agustí Casas and Rubén Huertas, was awarded Best Wine Tourism Book in the world Award. The ceremony took place in Yantia, China, last May 2017, at the annual Gourmand Awards Ceremony. It is the second prize for this book, which had already won the 2017 Best Wine Tourism Book in the USA prize, also awarded by Gourmand International.

Casas and Rubén participated in the writing of the chapter ‘Wine tourism in a time of economic crisis: the success story of Can Bonastre winery in Spain’. In this chapter the two researchers depict the history of the Can Bonastre winery, the implementation of a process of adaptation in order to carry out wine tourism activities, and the measures taken to face the economic crisis.

Every year since 1995, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, which now brings together more than 205 countries, honours the best food and wine books. This competition aims to help readers, publishers and book retailers to find the very best out of the many food and wine books produced every year, to create an opportunity for books to access the major markets regardless of their languages, and to increase knowledge and respect for food and wine culture.