authentic tourist attractions in areas that, in principle, were not particularly considered tourist destinations. To give just a few examples, and without intending to be exhaustive: Raíces restaurant in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), L’Aliança restaurant English: d’Anglès (Anglès, Girona), GET STARTED! (Campezo, Alava), Quevedo’s Coto (Juan Abad Tower, Ciudad Real), Culler de Pau (O Grove, Pontevedra), Urdaniz ‘s Mill ( Urdaitz , Navarre), El Batan Inn ( Tramacastilla, Teruel), The Bicycle Restaurant ( Hoznayo , Cantabria), L’Escaleta (Cocentaina, Alicante), Marcial House (Arriondas, Asturias), Venta Moncalvillo Restaurant (Daroca de Rioja , La Rioja). This doesn’t mean that the aforementioned destinations alone aren’t capable of attracting visitors. But the fact is that having famous restaurants is an incentive for tourism. I’m not talking about wanting to learn about the culinary or gastronomic traditions of a particular region, but rather about a specific establishment, due to its quality, innovation, or other similar characteristics, capable of attracting tourists. The restaurant, therefore, becomes a tourist destination. III. THE IMPORTANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OVER THE SUPPLY OF HIGH-QUALITY GASTRONOMY One of the main questions that must be raised when addressing the administrative control of the gastronomic offering is precisely to what extent it is necessary and through which legal and administrative instruments it can be carried out. It seems that the gastronomic market itself has fairly effective self-regulation mechanisms 13, as we will see in the following lines. However, in my opinion, a 13 According to RODRÍGUEZ FONT, M., (2024), “Actividad de ordenación y control”, Manual de Derecho administrativo. Revista de Derecho Público: Teoría y Método, Marcial Pons, [RODRÍGUEZ FONT, M., (2024), “Organizing and Control Activity”, Manual de Derecho administrativo. Revista de Derecho Público: Teoría y Método , Marcial Pons], “In addition to legal norms —which are drawn up by public subjects, representatives of the legislative and executive branches— and are accompanied by coercive means (both to guarantee their compliance and to sanction their violation), there are norms and controls drawn up by private subjects as a result of self-regulation. These norms and controls are agreed upon by mutual consent, their compliance is voluntary and they are not supported by external coercion mechanisms. In many cases, the effects of self-regulation do not go beyond the private sphere in which it is created; but, in many others, its references or results do transcend it to be taken into consideration by public bodies. This is the case, for example, with respect to a significant portion of existing self-regulation in the area of economic activities. Certain rules and controls developed by private operators (economic agents, social partners, non-governmental organizations, etc.) enjoy technical and/or political recognition and, through a legislative policy decision— within the framework of the transformation of governance forms driven by the European Union—achieve, to a greater or lesser extent, relevance for public law, becoming a technique or instrument that the legal provisions themselves 7 ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL IN THE “HIGH QUALITY” GASTRONOMIC OFFER
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