1. TYPES OF TOURISM

2. BUSINESS TOURISM
TRAVEL TO COMPLETE A BUSINESS TRANSACTION OR ATTEND A BUSINESS EVENT.
EXAMPLES
conventions
sales meetings
trade shows

3. NATURE TOURISM Travel to enjoy a natural setting, scenery or wildlife
Travel to the Serengeti Plain in Africa, or the rainforest of Costa Rica are examples

4. CULTURAL TOURISM
Travel to experience history, folklore and cultural lifestyle of a location.
Museums, homestays, mosques

5. SOCIAL TOURISM Travel which involves the company of others.
This may include travel by tour bus and family visits.

6. RECREATIONAL TOURISM
Tourism to experience something different from the routine of daily life.
Relaxing Camping

7. ACTIVE TOURISM Tourism that has a predetermined objective, such as…
Climbing a Mountain
Learning a
new language

8. SPORTS TOURISM
Tourism to experience a specialized sport or sporting event.

9. RELIGIOUS TOURISM Visiting a place of religious significance.
Vatican, Rome
Varanasi, India
Mecca, Saudi Arabia

10. HEALTH TOURISM Tourism to improve one’s health Spas Weight Loss Camps
Surgery

11. ADVENTURE TOURISM
Tourism that involves an aspect of challenge and adventure, such as…

12. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
First women to climb all 14, 8000m + mountain peaks without oxygen
She finally climbed K2 on her 4th attempt.

13. ECOTOURISM/WILDERNESS
Low impact adventure in a natural setting – in harmony with nature.
This involves few people in remote places being environmentally responsible.

14. Dark Tourism
Involving visiting locations that are associated with death and tragedy or ghost walks.
“there is a fine line between curiosity and exploitation at the expense of others” Amanda Kendle
In 2011, Auschwitz had 1.41 million visitors

15. Dark Tourism

16. Frontier Tourism Places that no one or very few people have ever seen
People are lured by being one of the 1st ever to see/do something.
Antarctica, Mt. Everest
Space – 7 tourists have been to the international space station.
Guy Laliberte (Cirque) was the last to go at $ on a Russian vessel

17. Virgin’s Galactic Spaceship Two
Going to be the 1st commercially operating space flight
Launch from another aircraft and spend 2.5 hours in space
5 –10 minutes of weightlessness at feet (110 km)
only for $

18. Virgin’s Galactic Spaceship Two