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Essay / Special Forms of Tourism - 997
Special Forms of TourismIn recent decades, other forms of tourism, also known as niche tourism, have become more popular, including:• Adventure tourism : tourism involving travel to rugged regions, or adventure sports such as mountaineering and hiking (tramping). • Agritourism: farm tourism, helping to support the local agricultural economy. • Ancestral tourism: (also known as genealogical tourism) is the trip aimed at tracing one's ancestors, visiting the birthplaces of these ancestors and sometimes getting to know distant families. • Armchair tourism and virtual tourism: not traveling physically, but exploring the world through the Internet, books, television, etc. • Audio tourism: includes audio walking tours and other audio-guided forms of tourism, including museum audio guides and travel audio books. • Travel tourism Backpackers is a term used to denote a form of low-cost independent international travel, differentiating it from other forms of tourism including the following typical attributes: minimal budget use, longer duration. travel, use of public transport and multiple destinations/countries. The origin of the name comes from the backpacks that budget travelers typically carry for the sake of mobility and flexibility.• Bookstore tourism is a local effort to support independent bookstores by promoting them as a destination for travel.• Creative tourism is a new form of tourism that allows visitors to develop their creative potential and connect with local people, through informal participation in hands-on workshops that draw on the culture of their travel destinations. vacation.• Cultural tourism: includes urban tourism, visiting historic or interesting cities and experiencing their cultural heritages. This type of tourism may also include specialized cultural experiences, such as art museum tourism where the tourist visits many art museums during the trip, or opera tourism where the tourist sees many operas or concerts during the trip. • Coastal tourism involves tourism products located along the circuit. Coastal environments – due to the limited extent of coastal environments, they are often among the first places to experience tourist congestion in a region. • Dark tourism: is travel to sites associated with death and suffering. The first tour company specializing in this type of tourism began with trips to Lakehurst, New Jersey, site of the Hindenburg airship disaster. • Disaster tourism: going to the scene of a disaster not primarily to help, but because it is interesting to see. This can pose a problem if it hampers rescue, relief and repair operations. • Drug tourism: traveling to a country to obtain or consume drugs, legally or illegally..