Thursday, November 12, 2009

TYPES OF TOURISM

Tourism may be of different kinds depending on the type of occasion and purpose an individual travels. Every kind of travel can be categorised in the categories given below.

1. Aboriginal tourism 
2. Adventure tourism
3. Alternative tourism
4. Backpack tourism 
5. Battlefield tourism
6. Border tourism 
7. Convention 
8. Celebrity tourism 
9. Community Based tourism 
10. Cruise tourism 
11. Culinary tourism
12. Disaster tourism
13. Dark tourism
14. Dive tourism 
15. Ecotourism 
16. Educational tourism 
17. Ethnic tourism
18. Event tourism 
19. Extreme tourism
20. FIT - Free Independent Traveler 
21. Geopark Tourism 
22. Geotourism (related to Sustainable tourism)
23. Girlfriend Getaway (all female trip)
24. GIT - Group Inclusive Travel 
25. Golf tourism
26. Greif tourism (related to Dark tourism)
27. Health tourism
28. Heritage tourism
29. Incentive travel 
30. Island tourism
31. Honeymoon 
32. LGBT tourism (Lesbian, Gay. Bisexual and Trangender)
33. Mass tourism
34. Medical tourism
35. MICE - Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions and Exhibitions
36. Mountain tourism
37. Nautical tourism
38. New Age tourism
39. Nightlife tourism
40. Package tourism 
41. Photography tourism
42. Religious tourism 
43. Reunion tourism 
44. Roots tourism 
45. Rural tourism
46. Second Home tourism 
47. Sex tourism
48. Shopping tourism
49. Space tourism
50. Sports tourism
51. SSS - Sun, Sand and Surf (also Sun, Surf and Sex)
52. Sustainable tourism
53. Thanatourism (meaning death related tourism)
54. Urban tourism
55. VFR - Visiting Friends and Relatives
56. Volunteer tourism 
57. War tourism
58. Winter (Sports) tourism