Definition and Types of Tourism

          Tourism is defined as the activities of persons identified as visitors.  A visitor is someone who is making a visit to a main destination outside his/her usual environment for less than a year for any main purpose [including] holidays, leisure and recreation, business, health, education or other purposes….This scope is much wider than the traditional perception of tourists, which included only those travelling for leisure. We absolutely has been going to some places with our own purposes whether for business, education or recreation. Recreation is actually being the most common thing for doing a tourism, because I honestly always doing a tourism with a porpuse to have a recreation.

      Types of Tourism :

Based on Geography :

1. Domestic Tourism : Visitors who are only travelling within the country, they don't need a passport or visa to travelling withn the country.
2. Regional Tourism : is a tourism activity which is concentrated to a certain region.
3. Regional Int Tourism :  is a tourism activity which is concentrated to a certain region, but more wider than regional tourism. 
4. International Tourism : is travel to a country outside of the one’s residential country.  

Based on Goal :

1. Bussiness : types of tourism where is the visitor come to do a bussiness trip, for example : meeting, convention or exhabition.
2. Educational : types of tourism where is the visitor come to do an educational stuff, example : Study tour and dharmawisata.
3. Vacational : types of tourism where is the visitor come to vacation and spent their free time.

Based on Object :

1. Cultural : where the visitor came to a certain places or object and they wanted to know about the art and the culture about the places, example : Candi Borobudur.
2. Sports : where the visitor came to a certain places to witness sport event in a certain places, example : sea games.
3. Religion : where the visitor came to a certain places to witness religious event, example : Masjid Sunan Kali Jaga.
4. Political : Visitor came with a purpose to witness an event that related to country activities, example : 1 May parade at Tiongkok
5. Commercial : or we can call it as trade tourism, because in this trip associated with national or international trade. Where is Expo, fair, Exhibiton is often being held.
6. Recuperational : as known as health tourism, the purpose of the visitor is to cure their disease, example : hot springs.
7. Social : Social tourism should not be associated as a stand-alone tourism. This sense only in terms of its implementation are not emphasized on the business for profit. Eg study tours, youth tourism known as juvenile tourism.
8. Natural : types of tourism where the people tend to enjoy the wildlife and being involved in the breathtaking natural view.

Based on Time :

1. Seasonal : types of tourism where the activity were doing in a certain season, example : Summer Tourism
2. Ocassional : types of tourism that related to certain event (ocassion), example : Sekaten at Yogyakarta and Panjang Jimat at Cirebon.

Baseds on the Amount of People :

1. Individual : do travels independently (alone) or one family that traveled together.
2. Group : type of tourist who are making the tour that consits of few people .

Based on Transportation :

1. Land : doing the activities by using private car, bus or train.
2. Air : doing the activities by using plane.
3. Sea :  doing the activities by using ship

Based on Age :

1. Youth : Tourism that develops for teens who are happy to travel at relatively inexpensive prices.
2. Adult : Tourism activities and followed by those who are elderly. Usually the people who make this journey are the people who are undergoing a period of their retirement.

Based on Sex :

1. Masculine: Tourism types whose activities are only attended by men, example : Safari Hunting Adventure is often done in Africa.
2. Feminine : Tourism types who only attended by women only. For example tour organized specifically for a demonstration of beauty, cooking, decorating, and others.

Based on Social Level :

1. Delux : Travel which uses lux standard facilities, such as transportation, hotel, or attraction that will be witnessed.
2. Middle Class : Travel that is intended for those who want a facility at a price that is not too expensive, but also not too bad service.
3. Social : Tourism types which happen to be carried along with the costs calculated as cheaply as possible with adequate facilities while in transit.

So there is the definition of tourism and types of tourism.

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