A28. The following appeared in a consultant’s report to the Regional Cuisine, Inc. “The number of tourists coming to Central Valley has increased 30 percent in the past three years, but no new restaurants have been opened during that time. To capitalize on the rapidly expanding tourist market, Regional Cuisine should immediately open a new restaurant in Central Valley, featuring traditional dishes of the Central Valley region. Regional Cuisine restaurants have been profitable in other tourist areas and thus we should expect to succeed in Central Valley as well.”
1The author committed a fallacy of all things are equal. What happened in the past three years does not guarantee the future trend will be the same. 2No new restaurants have been opened while the number of tourists has increased may indicate that the restaurant industry has been saturated. 3The food featured in traditional dishes of the Central Valley is not popular around the tourists. 4The author commits a false analogy fallacy which asserts that the Central valley can copy other areas' success.
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