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Dfferent types of tourism



Nowadays, traveling is becoming more and more popular. Reduction of working time, the development of means of transport, industry and urbanization has made that now tourism is a mass phenomen. There are many different forms of tourism. 

One of them is culture tourism. It consists in visiting places of special cultural value. Its aim are  therefore usually the cities, where there are museums, architectural monuments and theaters. Cultural tourism enthusiasts can also make use of the special trails leading through the places associated with a particular type of cultural heritage. In Poland belongs to them, for example, The Trail Eagle of Nests or The Cistercian Trail. A new form of cultural tourism is the bookstore tourism. These are trips to the cities of books - places, full of antique shops and literary festivals. These cities associates International Organisations of Book Towns.




          

 





Increasingly frequent kind of tourism is film tourism. It involves visiting the places where the most famous film productions created. Travel agencies offer tours in the footsteps of heroes Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.

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Interesting variety of cognitive tourism is  the nature tourism. It involves with exploring the wildlife. There are many form of nature travelling.  These include bridewatching, geotourism or polar tourism. People choosing this way of spending time admiring the most extraordinary natural wonders. Wildlife tourism can promote respect for the natural environment. However, a growing number of tourists can disrupt the harmony unspoilt land.
























Another form of travel is culinary tourism. Amateur of food tourism visit various places of the world to explore new flavors.  A popular destination for culinary tours is France.  Tourists visit different regions of the country to sample local foods and wine.

Active way of spending time is also ethnic tourism. It is "travel motivated by search for the first hand, authentic and sometimes intimate contact with people whose ethnic and /or cultural background is different from the tourists".  Ethnic form of tourism could be also a backpacking. Dispense with conventional means of transport and accommodation in popular hotels facilitates deeper understanding of the foreign culture.

Another type of tourism, called sentimetal tourism, has developed as a result of emigration and geopolitical changes. It involves travelling to places where we spent childhood and adolescence or to places connected with our ancestors. Sentimental tourism combined with the search for a sense of identity. Example of such a searches is travelling participans migration of nineteeth century to Greece, Great Britain or Ireland, as well as the returns of the Jews to Poland as a place strongly associated with their history.

Canoe tourism is popular too. This kind of travelling provides an opportunity to close contact with nature. It usually associated with accommodation in tents. So we can say that is a combination of nature tourism and backpacking. But above all kayaking is a great form of sport. Kayaking can be also a kind of school of survival.



I would like to ask you:
Have you ever tried, any of the above-mentioned forms of tourism?
What is your favorite form of tourism?
Do you know the onother types of tourism?

http://mfiles.pl/pl/index.php/Turystyka_sentymentalna 


Aleksandra Walulik

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  1. I have never heard about the bookstore tourism or film tourism but it sounds interesting and it might help to feel like a character of a book/film. Walking through New Zealand, like Legolas and Frodo, must be great because of breathtaking landscapes. I like travelling, visiting new places but I prefer geological monuments than historical. A place which really impressed me is Pompei, the ancient city destroyed by volcano eruption.

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  2. its really interesting post.
    i agree with your lines .now a days lots of tourist traveling .
    thanks for share this article .


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