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Types of Tourism Explained

This document discusses different types of tourism: 1) Culinary tourism focuses on unique local dining experiences. Cultural/heritage tourism involves immersing in a society's lifestyle, history, art, and rituals. 2) Dark/grief tourism and disaster tourism involve visiting sites related to death, suffering, or natural disasters. Educational tourism is traveling to learn at museums, historical places, and natural areas. 3) Extreme/shock tourism includes activities like mountaineering as well as visiting native societies and urban areas. Ethnic tourism observes native peoples' practices. Pop-culture tourism visits locations from entertainment. Poverty tourism observes people living in poverty.

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Types of Tourism Explained

This document discusses different types of tourism: 1) Culinary tourism focuses on unique local dining experiences. Cultural/heritage tourism involves immersing in a society's lifestyle, history, art, and rituals. 2) Dark/grief tourism and disaster tourism involve visiting sites related to death, suffering, or natural disasters. Educational tourism is traveling to learn at museums, historical places, and natural areas. 3) Extreme/shock tourism includes activities like mountaineering as well as visiting native societies and urban areas. Ethnic tourism observes native peoples' practices. Pop-culture tourism visits locations from entertainment. Poverty tourism observes people living in poverty.

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Introduction to the Travel and Tourism Industry 1

I. Types of Tourism

• Culinary Tourism refers to travel of which the purpose is to pursue unique and memorable
drinking and dining with the locals at the chosen destination.
• Cultural/Heritage Tourism involves immersion in a society’s lifestyle, its people’s history, its
art and architecture, its religion, and any other elements that have shaped it and its people. It
can also include participation in a culture’s rituals festivals.
• Dark/Grief Tourism is tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering.
• Disaster Tourism involves visiting areas that have been affected by floods, hurricanes, and
other places stricken with natural disasters.
• Educational Tourism is the kind of tourism in which the purpose is learning and enriching
knowledge. Usually, these are students visiting museums, historical places, religious places
and in natural areas.
• Extreme/Shock Tourism includes tourism of native societies, ghettos, jungles, and urban areas.
It can also include extreme activities such as mountaineering, bungee jumping, rafting, and
rock climbing, zip-lining, and trekking.
• Ethnic Tourism is where travelers observe a country’s native people without the intent of
scientific gain. It is a travel where a traveler chooses to experience the practices of other culture
within a community or within a tribal group.
• Pop-culture Tourism is the act of traveling to locations featured in literature, film, music, or
any other form of popular entertainment. Pop-culture tourism is pretty much exactly what it
sounds like – going to visit locations featured in books, film, music, TV, and other forms of
entertainment.
• Poverty Tourism or Poorism is a type of tourism, much akin to slumming, in which tourism
travel to less developed places to observe people living in poverty.

Reference:
Lim, R. D. (2012). Principles & scopes of tourism. Manila City: Mindshapers Co., INC.

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