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 4 th attempt. Fredrik Ericsson (1975-2010)

13. The Top Mountain Peaks in the World

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

15. 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

16. Dark Tourism 

17. Frontier Tourism  Places that no one or very few people have ever seen  People are lured by being one of the 1 st 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 $35 000 000 on a Russian vessel

18. Virgin’s Galactic Spaceship Two  Going to be the 1 st commercially operating space flight  Launch from another aircraft and spend 2.5 hours in space  5 –10 minutes of weightlessness at 360 000 feet (110 km)  only for $ 200 000.00

19. Virgin’s Galactic Spaceship Two