This document discusses different types of tourism. It defines tourism as temporary travel for leisure purposes and interactions between tourists and destinations. Different types of tourism include honeypot tourism at popular attractions, MICE tourism for business purposes, medical tourism for health procedures, film-induced tourism to locations featured in movies, heritage tourism for culture and history, religious tourism to sacred sites, and dark tourism focused on death. Each type of tourism requires certain physical or human characteristics in the destination. New types of tourism are also constantly evolving.

1. Global Tourism
Introduction

2. By the end of this lesson
You should be able to:
1. Describe
and
give
authentic
examples of different types of
tourism
2. Explain why tourist activities are
unique at different places

3. Tourism Definitions
• Tourism refers to the temporary movement
of people primarily for leisure and
recreational purposes
• It is characterised by the interaction(s)
between tourists and tourism destinations

4. Tourism Definitions
• A tourist is defined as a person who
travels and stays away from his/her
normal place of residence for more than
24 hours but less than a year, regardless
of travel purpose

5. Tourism Types
• Tourism is place-specific, tourists travel to
a specific physical location
• Different
spaces/environments
(both
physical
and
human)
in
tourism
destinations create diverse tourism
activities
• There are therefore the presence of
different tourism types

6. Honeypot Tourism
• Tourism honeypots refers to particularly
popular visitor attractions which attract
tourists in large numbers

7. Honeypot Tourism
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Taj Mahal, Agra, India

8. Honeypot Tourism
Giant’s Causeway, N. Ireland
Ipanema Beach, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

9. MICE
• Refers to travel for
commercial purposes
Vienna Convention Centre, Austria
business
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
or

10. MICE
• Requisite: Destinations which provide
good amenities for meetings, incentives,
conferences and exhibitions
Melbourne Convention Hall, Australia
Yeosu Expo, S. Korea

11. MICE
Source: Singapore Tourism Board

12. Medical/ Health Tourism
• Refers to travel for medical care by
bypassing services offered in their own
communities
Plastic Surgery in Seoul, S. Korea
Beppu Hot Springs, Japan

13. Medical/ Health Tourism
• Requisites: Places with good medical
facilities or health facilities such as spas
and hot springs
• Rise in medical tourism, especially in
cosmetic procedures (S. Korea estimates
300 thousand medical tourists by 2015)

14. Film-induced Tourism
• Tourism to destinations featured on
television, video, or cinema screen
• Requisites: Physical or human landscape
which appears on television, video, or
cinema screen (More prominent in
popular/cult movies)

15. Film-induced Tourism

16. Film-induced Tourism
Alnwick Castle, UK
Hogwarts in Harry Potter Movies

17. Film-induced Tourism
Christ Church College, Oxford, UK
Dining Hall of Hogwarts

18. Film-induced Tourism
Mt Ngauruhoe, Tongariro, New Zealand
Mount Doom, Mordor of LOTR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYGlLonPRk

19. Film-induced Tourism
Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
Leonardo Di Caprio’s The Beach

20. Heritage Tourism
Travelling to experience the authentic
culture and history offered by a
particular place and/or activity
The Ghats in Varanasi, India

21. Heritage Tourism
• Requisite: Places with rich history and/or
authentic culture
Kayan Culture, Burma

22. Religious Tourism
• Travelling for religious purposes (e.g.
pilgrimage, missions, religious gatherings)
• Requisite: Places with religious/holy sites
The Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Israel

23. Dark Tourism
Refers to travelling to sites, attractions and
exhibitions which have real or recreated
death, suffering or the seemingly macabre
as a main theme
Gates and Haunting Images of the Dachau Nazi
Concentration Camp, Munich , Germany

24. Dark Tourism
Requisite: Places with history of conflicts
or history of mass deaths/ places which
uses death as a theme of attraction
Catacombs of the Capuchins, Palermo, Italy- Over 8000 bodies
hung on the walls like paintings!

25. Requisites for Tourism Types
• Each tourism destination is unique in the
types of tourism they offer
• Certain requisites (may be physical or
human in nature) must be present for a
destination to be labeled as a particular
type
• E.g. Disneyland cannot be a type of
medical tourism/ dark tourism

26. New Types of Tourism
• There are new types of tourism which are
constantly evolving or becoming more
popular
• E.g. Adventure tourism
Bungee Jumping, Queenstown, New Zealand

27. Learning Points
• Tourism is place-specific
• Different environments (both physical and
human) in tourism destinations create
diverse opportunities for tourist activities
• Presence of requisites for each type of
tourism