TM 111.

Sustainable
Tourism Dr. Rafael M. Bachanicha
Faculty, CHTM
Lesson 2
 Forms and type of
tourism as well as
dimensions of
sustainable tourism.
Objectives
 Describe and
appreciate the forms or
types of tourism.
 Promote forms and
types of tourism.
Introduction
 Travel and tourism have
become an essential part of
our life as it refreshes the
mind and reduces stress.
 It is also one of the fastest-
growing industry which makes
a significant contribution to
the world’s GDP.
Introduction
 The diversity of tourism ensures
that there is something for
everyone to do.
 Tourists may travel to
experience a change in climate
and place and learn something
new, enjoy pleasant scenery, or
to know more about the culture
of a destination.
Introduction
 Tourists, who seek
break from the stress
of day to day life,
devote their holiday
to rest and
relaxation, refresh
themselves.
Forms and Types of
Tourism Tourism
Adventure
 Involves the
exploration of
remote places
where travelers can
expect the
unexpected.
Forms and Types of
Tourism Tourism
Accessible
 Ensures people get
access to tourist
destinations, products
and services regardless
of physical limitations,
disabilities or age.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Agri-tourism / Farm Tourism
 Normally occurs on farms
 It gives travelers an
opportunity to experience
rural life, taste the local
genuine food and get
familiar with various
farming tasks.
Forms and Types of
Tourism tourism
Alternative
 Also known as specific
interest tourism (SIT)
 Involves travel that
encourages
interaction with local
government, people
and communities.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Atomic tourism
 Recently emerged where
tourists learn about the
atomic age by traveling to
sites such as museums with
atomic weapons, missile
silos, vehicles that carried
atomic weapons.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Benefit Tourism
 Comes to a country to live off
social security and other
entitlements, including child
benefit, child tax credit, state
pension credit, jobseeker’s
allowance, and employment
and support allowance.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Birth tourism
 Also known as maternity
tourism is the practice of
traveling to another
country for giving birth.
 The main reason for this
practice is to obtain
birthright citizenship.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Boat Sharing
 Is the act of sharing
boats with other
people who want to
go to the same
place.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Booze cruise
 Intention of buying
personal supplies
such as alcohol or
tobacco in bulk.
 To drink alcoholic
drinks
Forms and Types of
Tourismtourism
Business
 Involves traveling to a
destination away from
home or a normal
workplace.
 It is a type of travel for
professional purposes
rather than personal
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Birdwatching
 Observing birds in their
natural habitat.
 These birds are observed
with the naked eye or visual
enhancement devices such as
binoculars, telescopes and
listening devices.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Camping
 Is a famous outdoor activity
that involves an overnight
stay in a tent or recreational
vehicle.
 It is considered as an
inexpensive
accommodation option.
Forms and Types of
Tourismtourism
Culinary
 Also known as food
tourism
 Is for food
enthusiasts who love
to explore new food
destinations.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Cultural tourism
 Is where travelers
engage with a country
or religion’s culture,
especially the lifestyle
and other elements that
shaped the life of the
people.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Dental tourism or dental
vacation
 Involves people seeking
dental care out of their
local healthcare system.
 It may also be
accompanied by a
vacation.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Disaster tourism or
dark/black/grief tourism
Involves visiting environmental
disaster places that are either
natural or man-made.
People are attracted to this type
of tourism because of its social,
academic or cultural essence.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Domestic tourism
 Involves residents of a
country traveling within the
same country.
 For example, if you are
living in Manhattan and
travel to Texas, it is called
domestic tourism.
Forms and Types of
Tourism drug
Recreational
tourism
 Is a type of travel for the
purpose of using
recreational drugs that
are unavailable, illegal
or expensive.
Forms and Types of
Tourism oenotourism,
Enotourism,
wine tourism, or
vinitourism
 Involves tasting, consumption or
purchase of wine.
 These tourists visit wineries, taste
wine, go on vineyard walks or even
take part in the harvest.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Escorted tour
 Is a type of tourism where
travelers are guided in
groups.
 Usually, it is a walking tour
where a guide takes the
group to historical or
cultural sites.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Experiential travel or
immersion travel
 Is a tourism type where
travelers experience a
country by enthusiastically
engaging with its history,
people, culture and food
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Experimental

Tourism
Is an approach where travelers
don’t visit the places of ordinary
attraction.
 This type of tourism involves
humor, serendipity, and chance.
 Some of the experimental travel
types include flying by night, blind
travel, find your other half travel.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Extreme

tourism or shock tourism
Involves traveling to dangerous
places such as mountains, jungles,
deserts, caves, canyons etc.
 The main attraction is the
adrenaline rush caused by the
risk.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Ecotourism
 Involves visiting
undisturbed natural
areas.
 It promotes conserving
the environment and
improving the well-
being of local people.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Fashion tourism
 Involves visiting a particular
place to enjoy, experiment,
discover, study, trade and buy
fashion.
 It evolved out of creative
tourism, cultural tourism and
shopping tourism sectors
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Garden tourism
 Is a niche tourism
which involves
traveling to botanical
gardens and places that
has a rich history of
gardening.
Forms and Types of
Tourism tourism or
Genealogy
roots tourism
 Involves tourists who
travel to their ancestral
place to reconnect with
their past or to walk in
the footsteps of their
forefathers.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Geo-tourism
 Sustains or enhances the
distinctive geographical
character of a place—its
environment, heritage,
aesthetics, culture, and the
well-being of its residents.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Halal tourism
 Is geared towards Muslim
families who follow the rules of
Islam.
 The accommodation service
providers in such destinations do
not serve alcohol and have a
separate swimming pool and spa
facilities for men and women.
Forms and Types of
Tourism tourism
Honeymoon
 Is taken soon after a
couple is married.
 Generally, newlyweds
spend more on this than
any other type of
tourism.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Industrial tourism
 Visits to industrial sites of a
particular location.
 This concept has taken a
renewed interest in recent
times and attracts tourists to
visit industrial heritage and
modern sites.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
International Tourism
 The World Tourism Organization
(WTO) defines tourism as ‘traveling
to and staying in places outside their
usual environment for not more than
one consecutive year for leisure,
business and other purposes’.
 This tourism has increased due to the
impact of greater globalization.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
International

volunteering
Also known as voluntourism is
where people work for an
organization or cause outside
their home country.
 According to recent trends, this
type of tourism has become
popular in many countries.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Jungle tourism
 Is a subcategory of
adventure tourism
which is nothing
but traveling to the
jungle regions of the
earth.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Justice
tourism
tourism or solidarity

 Aims to create economic

opportunities for local
communities, positive
cultural exchange and
political/historical
education.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
LGBT tourism
 Is a form of niche tourism marketed
to gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender people.
 These tourists usually open about
their sexual orientation or gender
identity, travel to LGBT friendly
destinations.
 Travel with other LGBT people
irrespective of destination.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Literary tourism
 Deals with tourists
visiting birthplaces,
burial sites, museums
and other sites
associated with authors
or literary creations.
Forms and Types of
Tourism heritage
Militarism
tourism
 Is a type of tourism
where people visit
former military sites.
Forms and Types of
Tourism touring
Motorcycle
 Involves a motorcycle.
Tourists either buy or
rent bikes that are
equipped for long travel
and luggage carrying
capacity.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Music tourism
 Involves visiting
a city or town to
see musical
festival or music
performance.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Medical tourism
 Refers to people
traveling to another
country to get
medical treatment.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Nautical tourism
 Combines sailing and boating
with vacation activities.
 It also encompasses marine
tourism activities such as
sailing, yachting, cruising and
diving, coastal water sports,
boat shows and more.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Political

tourism
Refers to journeys taken with
political intent.
 Such trips involve traveling to the
areas of conflict to study the
circumstances, understand the
situations of both sides and
develop knowledge about local
history.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Religious

tourism,
Known as faith tourism refers
to traveling individually or in
groups to holy sites.
 These sites are also visited by
non-religious tourists who want to
know the cultural, historical and
religious significance
Forms and Types of
Tourism
River cruise
 Is a voyage along inland
waterways which has
several port stops along
the way.
 Typically, travel time
lasts longer than a
week.
Forms and Types of
Tourismtours
Romance
 Are organized by tour
operators where men go
to countries to meet
women for either
romance or marriage.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Rural tourism
 Occurs in rural environments
and involves rural
experience.
 Tourists visit these places to
understand the lifestyle
of these people
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Safari holidays
 Involve watching
wild animals in
their natural habitat
to observe and
photograph wildlife.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Science tourism
 Is visiting and exploring
scientific landmarks such as
museums, laboratories,
observatories and
universities.
 It also includes viewing
scientific events such as
solar eclipse.
Forms and Types of
Tourism tour or self-
Self-guided
governing tour or solo
trips
 Is a type of tour where
the traveler is
responsible for getting
from point A to point B
on their own.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Set-jetting
 Is the latest trend that
involves traveling to
destinations that are
seen in movies.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Slum tourism or ghetto
tourism
 Involves visiting
impoverished areas.
 The purpose of this tourism
is to provide tourists a
chance to see the ‘non-
touristy’ areas of a country.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Space tourism
 Involves traveling into
space for recreational
purposes.
 Even though this
sounds futuristic, it
has already
established history.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Sports tourism
 Involves either observing
or participating in a
sporting event.
 Sports tourism is also
classified into sports event
tourism, celebrity and
nostalgia sport tourism and
active sport tourism.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Stag party tourism
 Is participating in
a bachelor party
which is usually
held in another
country.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Sustainable tourism or
responsible tourism
 Involves traveling to a place in
order to make a positive impact on
the environment, society and
economy.
 It benefits everyone involved
and not just one half of the
equation
Forms and Types of
Tourismtourist
Tombstone
 Is an individual who enjoys
history of famous deaths,
cemeteries, epitaphs and
gravestone rubbing.
 Such type of tourists are
particularly interested in
the historical aspect of
such places.
 Forms/Types of Tourism
3 Dimensional Virtual Tourism 3DVT or 3D virtual tourism
 Allows travelers to explore a place without physically travelling via
a smartphone or computer.
 Such type of tours are created with 3D models and 2D panoramic
images, a sequence of hyperlinked still or video images, and image-
based models of the real world along with sound effects and text.

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Forms and Types of
Tourism
War tourism
 Involves travelling to war
zones for sightseeing or
historical study.
 Such types of tourists get
the thrill in travelling to
dangerous and forbidden
places.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Water tourism or nautical
tourism
 Combines sailing and
boating with vacation &
holiday.
 When people plan to travel
on a vacation, many have a
strong desire to head to the
water.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
 Involves travelling to promote
health via physical,
psychological, or spiritual
activities.
 This should not be confused
with medical tourism because
wellness tourists travel to
maintain their health.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Whale watching
 Involves observing
whales and dolphins in
their natural habitat.
 Tourists visit such
places for scientific
and educational
purposes
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Dark tourism
 Has been defined as
tourism involving
travel to places
historically
associated with death
and tragedy
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Farm

tourism
Is the business of attracting
visitors to farm areas generally
for educational and recreational
purposes while encouraging
economic activities that can
provide both the farm and
community additional income.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Forest Tourism
 Traveling around
the forest arena of a
destination
aids tourists observe
and interact with local
plant and animal life in
their natural habitats.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Sex

Tourism
Involves travel to a particular
destination to pursue
sexual services.
 Is usually associated with
prostitution,
 Is illegal in many countries.
 Popular sex tourism destinations
include Amsterdam, Thailand and
The Gambia.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Educational

Tourism
Educational tourism
developed, because of the
growing popularity of teaching
and learning of knowledge and
the enhancing of technical
competency outside of the
classroom environment.
Forms and Types of
Tourism
Photographic tourism
 Is that form of special interest
tourism in which tourist visits a
particular place with the primary
aim of photographing subjects that
are unique to him.
 The scope of photography may range
from landscapes, portraits,
architectures, culture, food and
wildlife to even macro subjects.”
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