Types of Tourism
Adventure Tourism
This type of tourism involves unusual holidays, which are very
different from the typical beach vacation. It is a travel to
remote areas: inaccessible and possible hostile areas where
travelers expect the unexpected.
It is characterized by its ability to provide the tourist with relatively
high levels of sensory stimulation, usually achieved by
including physically challenging experiential components with
the (typically short) tourist experience.
Most activities require significant effort and grit and usually
involve some degree of risk.
Example of activities engaged in by
tourists:
Bushwhacking
Hang Gliding
Tramping
Hunting
Mountaineering
Cross-Country
skiing
Rock
Climbing
Rappelling
Spelunking
Bungee
Jumping
Skydiving
Arts Tourism
This type of tourism focuses on the tourists gaining
exposure to paintings, sculpture and other forms of art.
It is usually considered a sub-category of cultural tourism.
Tourists visit places to appreciate works of famous artists,
local or international.
Example of activities engaged in
by tourists:
Visits to: museums
Theaters
Art Galleries
HOUSES OF FAMOUS
ARTISTS AND WRITERS
Cultural Tourism
This type of tourism involves experiencing or having
contact of different intensity with the unique social
fabric, heritage and special characteristic of places.
Enriching information and knowledge on other countries as
well as satisfaction of the need for entertainment are
two primary reasons for engaging in this kind of tourism.
Example of activities engaged in by
tourists:
Visits to:
archaeological sites
Historical
sites
Folk arts, music
and dance
Festivals
Ecotourism
This type of tourism consist of travel to relatively
undisturbed or uncontained natural areas with specific
objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the
scenery and its wild plants and animals, as well as any
existing cultural manifestation(both past and present)
found in the areas.
Example of activities engaged in by
tourists:
Scuba diving
Bird
Watching
Whale
Watching
National and Natural Parks
Educational Tourism
The main purpose of this tourism is learning.
It is an organized learning usually made available to
students, not actively seeking a degree, for a duration of
not more than a year.
Ethnic Tourism
Ethnic tourism is when travelers choose to experience
firsthand the practices of another culture, usually
isolated indigenous communities.
It may involve performances, presentations and attractions
portraying or presented by the host community.
Events Tourism
This type of tourism refers to the travel of tourists to
destinations to attend and/or participate in events, fairs,
ceremonies, jubilees, parties or celebrations,
pilgrimages, parades, rituals or rare natural phenomena
like solar eclipses and volcanic eruptions are the
primary tourist attractions.
Categories of Events:
a. Mega-events –events that attract the largest number of
tourists and usually would have a major impact on the
image of the destination.
b. Special events – one time or infrequently occurring
events outside the normal program or activities of the
sponsoring or organizing body; may be a concert, a
raffle draw or a special dinner.
c.
Hallmark events – give a particular destination, high
profile and provide the tourism theme for a destination.
Factory Tourism
This type of tourism involves visits to factories to learn
about the production process of products. One
attraction of this type of tourism is factories sell their
products as souvenirs and at a lower cost which the
tourist also take advantage of.
Festival Tourism
This type of tourism focuses on festivals. It is a subcategory of events tourism.
Tourists travel particularly to join in the celebration of a
certain festival.
Pintados de Passi
Sinulog
Dinagyang,
Iloilo
Panagbenga,
Baguio
Health Tourism
This involves travel for improvement of health. It includes
travel to spas and for massage and, medical treatments.
Health tourism is the travel to a different country or state for
health-related reasons. Lack of facilities in the home
country, exorbitant cost of treatment in the home
country, no or minimal insurance coverage, anonymity,
and possibility of a holiday with health care are some of
the drivers of this kind of tourism
Heritage Tourism
WTO defines this type of tourism as an immersion in the
natural history, human heritage, arts, philosophy and
institutions of another region or country.
People are driven by desire to learn about cultural
traditions and artifacts. This type of tourism is also
associated with cultural tourism.
MICE
(Meetings, Incentives, Convention and Exhibition) Tourism
This type of tourism involves travel to attend scientific,
professional and even political gatherings.
This is engages in more by business travelers than leisure
travelers.
Nature-Based Tourism
The main attraction for this type of tourism is nature. It is often
associated with ecotourism and wildlife tourism.
This kind of tourism take place principally on natural resources
such as relatively undisturbed parks and natural areas,
wetlands, wildlife reserves and other areas of protected flora,
fauna, and habitats. This involves varying degrees of
interaction of tourists with the environment.
Sports Tourism
This type of tourism includes travel and participation or
attendance at a predetermined sports activity.
The sport can be competitive and/or recreational.
Urban Tourism
This type of tourism involves travel to cities and large
towns to enjoy its landscape and recreational activities
Disaster Tourism
It involves travelling to a disaster scene.
Tourists travel to a disaster area not to help but because it
is interesting to see. They can hinder rescue, relief and
repair work.
Gay Tourism
(Pink Tourism)
It is tourism participated by gays who have been open gay
lifestyle.
The primary purpose of travel is to be able to participate to
some extent in the gay life of a certain destination.
Rural Tourism
This is the type of tourism where people who like to escape
their fast-paced urban life engaged in.
Usually this kind of tourism takes place in country sides
and far flung areas.
Sex Tourism
This is tourism that is partially or fully for the purpose of
having sex, often with prostitutes.
Several researchers have enumerated possible reasons for
engaging this kind of tourism (a) more relaxed morality
law in the host community; (b) less rigorous
enforcement of laws; (c.) cheaper rates; (d) more
anonymity/privacy;(e) finding certain ethnic groups more
attractive; and (f) finding sex in tropical surroundings
and a hot climate more arousing.
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