Niche Tourism: Adventure Travel

Adventure Tourism

• Involves exploration or travel with inherent risks and physical exertion.
• Activities include rafting, paragliding, rappelling, trekking, and bungee jumping.

Agritourism

• Centers on agricultural activities that attract visitors to farms or ranches.
• Also known as agritourism, it focuses on showcasing local farming practices.

Genealogy Tourism

• Also referred to as roots tourism.
• Targets tourists with ancestral connections to specific holiday destinations.

Virtual Tourism

• Simulates existing locations through videos or still images.
• May include multimedia elements like sound effects, music, narration, and text.

Audio Tourism

• Features recorded spoken commentary, typically delivered through hand-held devices.
• Available at museums and for self-guided tours in outdoor locations.

Bookstore Tourism

• Cultural tourism promoting independent bookstores as travel destinations.
• Supports locally owned shops struggling against larger retail chains.

Cultural Tourism

• Focuses on travelers’ engagement with the lifestyle, history, and art of a region.
• Emphasizes authentic cultural experiences and interactions.

Dark Tourism

• Involves visiting sites historically linked to death and tragedy.
• Also known as black tourism or grief tourism.

Disaster Tourism

• Involves visiting locations where environmental disasters have occurred.
• Can encompass both natural and man-made disasters.

Recreational Drug Tourism

• Travel aimed at obtaining or using drugs not legal or available at home.
• Often associated with regions where drug use is more permissive.

Ecotourism

• Focuses on visiting pristine, fragile natural areas with minimal impact.
• Promotes low-impact tourism as an alternative to mass tourism.

Educational Tourism

• One of the fastest-growing types of tourism.
• Emphasizes travel related to education and learning experiences.

Extreme Tourism

• Involves travel to dangerous locations or participation in hazardous events.
• Sometimes referred to as shock tourism, though the concepts vary.

Gambling Tourism

• Relates to tourists who travel to gamble, boosting local gaming industries.

Garden Tourism

• Encompasses visits to botanical gardens and historically significant gardening locations.

Heritage Tourism

• Involves traveling to experience places, artifacts, and activities representing the stories of the past.
• Includes cultural, historic, and natural resource attractions.

Health Tourism

• Encompasses travel for medical treatments and healthcare services.
• Includes preventive care, rehabilitation, and curative forms of tourism.

Wellness Tourism

• A related field focusing on health-oriented travel experiences.

Hobby Tourism

• Travel undertaken to engage in specific hobbies or interests.
• Often involves group participation or experiences focused on shared interests.

Inclusive Tourism

• Also known as "tourism for all."
• Targets travelers with disabilities or functional limitations, promoting accessibility.

Medical Tourism

• Refers to individuals traveling abroad for medical treatments unavailable at home.
• Historically involved people from less-developed nations to advanced medical centers.

Pop-Culture Tourism

• Travel to locations featured in popular literature, film, music, or media.

Perpetual Tourism

• Characterizes people who travel almost constantly without a fixed abode.
• Often pursued by wealthy individuals for purposes such as tax benefits.

Religious Tourism

• Also known as faith tourism or pilgrimage.
• Involves individual or group travel for spiritual purposes or religious events.

Sex Tourism

• Phenomenon where individuals travel to engage in sexual activities, often with sex workers.

Sports Tourism

• Involves observing or participating in sporting events while traveling.
• Separates from typical tourist environments.

Space Tourism

• Travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes in space.
• Includes orbital, suborbital, and lunar tourism options.

Vacilando

• Spanish term referring to the act of wandering for the sake of the journey rather than a specific destination.

Wine Tourism

• Centers around the tasting and purchasing of wine near its source.
• Often linked with vineyard tours and regional wine festivals.

Gay Tourism

• Niche tourism aimed at LGBTQ+ individuals.
• Markets experiences catered to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender travelers.

Gastronomy Tourism

• Focused on culinary experiences, including visiting destinations for cuisine and food festivals.
• Influences travel behavior and decision-making processes through food-related interests.