Tourism as an industry has evolved through great changes and presently it is one of the most diversified and specialized industry. The tourism industry like many other service sectors has become subject to the great force of customization and specialization. Tourism no longer refers to the generic term of touring and travelling as it was many decades before. There have been several contributing factors in the development and evolution of the tourism industry as a whole and all these factors constituted together played one of the most pivotal roles in making some of the most popular types of tourism, like adventure tourism, Beach Tourism, ethnic tourism, health tourism, cultural tourism, sex tourism, luxury tourism, Eco-tourism, Geo-tourism, rural tourism,heritage tourism, slum tourism, wildlife tourism and many other minor specializations like bicycle tour, sports tourism, theme park tourism, etc. The travel taste of the modern citizen is widely variable and involves various cultural, social as well as economic specifications and attributes that suit different kind of tourists and in conformity with this variety of choice, test and spending ability the types of tourism differ and present different individual emphasis of taste. For instance a person from a developed nation and most recognizably civic and clean cities like Geneva may like to have a day's journey through the clandestinely populated and grim lanes of Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum area, or for instance a person living in New York and reportedly suffering from chronic life style diseases like diabetes or obesity may be interested in the tradition of Indian Yoga and Ayurveda and can obtain for a tour in the health tourism resorts in Kerala or in some parts of the Himalayan valley. These popular types of tourism serve as the major tourist attraction all over the globe and presently accounts for the rise in popularity and business of the hospitality industry. Here we would introduce some of the most popular types of tourism worldwide.
Adventure Tourism:
As the name suggests, this type of tourism actually serve the tourists and travelers of their appetite and taste for adventurous undertaking in hills, sea, rivers and jungles where the involvement of life risk and the joy of overcoming them equally play important role for the satisfaction of the tourists.
Beach Tourism:
Many people getting sufficiently tired of the hustle bustle of city life and continuously being victim of work stress prefer to spend the cool moments of their holidays watching ripples of blue water along the sun drenched golden sands of the beach and they invariably prefer this type holiday.
Health Tourism:
Health Tourism is considered to be one of the most popular types of tourism worldwide and the biggest contributing factor to this rising popularity is the increasing complications in the modern health care and increasing popularity of the traditional as well as ancient medical sciences like Ayurveda and healing sciences like yoga and meditation. A chronic diabetes patient from America may have sufficient reasons to visit an Ayurvedic ashram in the northern Himalayas in India or a herbal resort in Kerala with the objective of finding a conclusive treatment for his disease.
Cultural Tourism:
This is not only one of the most popular types of tourism but this is actually the crowd puller. Some of the famous festivities and cultural occasions still boast of a massive transport and trafficking of tourists in different parts of the world.
Eco Tourism:
Eco tourism is becoming extremely popular among the city living people around the world. As the consciousness regarding the harmful effects of various electronic gadgets and modern life style is spreading and as the natural way of organic living is becoming popular for its great beneficial effect on our health and living, Eco-tourism is gaining one of the most popular types of tourism as in this kind of tourism the traveler is supposed to experience the natural way of life and our bondage to the natural process by living surrounded by the natural circumstances and constantly being in touch with the forces of nature.
There are many other types of tourism that similarly attracts great number of tourists but the most popular types of tourism as mentioned above are most discussed in the public sphere and thereby generates higher tourist mobility.
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