What are the different types of cultural tourists?

World Trade Organization's 6 Categories of Cultural Tourism
  • Handicrafts and visual arts.
  • Gastronomy and culinary.
  • Social practices, rituals, and festive events.
  • Music and performing arts.
  • Oral traditions and expressions.
  • Knowledge and practices concerning nature.




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Based on a sample of 600 tourists arriving in Cracow to visit monuments and museums, participate in cultural events, and experience the cultural milieu, the study identified five main clusters. These were the 'Purposeful', 'Serendipitous', 'Sightseeing', 'Incidental' and 'Casual.

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Cultural tourism activities Having a tour around a village or town. Learning about local employment, for example through a tour of a tea plantation or factory. Undertaking volunteer work in the local community. Taking a course such as cooking, art, embroidery etc.

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Cohen (1972), a sociologist of tourism, classifies tourists into four types, based on the degree to which they seek familiarity and novelty: the drifter, the explorer, the individual mass tourist, and the organized mass tourist.

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The book examines the concept of cultural tourism and its definition and takes cultural tourism to involve four elements: tourism, use of cultural heritage assets, consumption of experiences and products and the tourist. Cultural tourism is examined from the perspectives of culture heritage and tourism management.

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  • Travel and Tourism.
  • Different Types of Tourism.
  • Domestic Tourism – Taking Holidays and Trips in your own country.
  • Inbound Tourism – Visitors from overseas coming into the country.
  • Outbound Tourism –Travelling to a different country for a visit or a.
  • Different Types of Travel.


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Forms of tourism: There are three basic forms of tourism: domestic tourism, inbound tourism, and outbound tourism. These can be combined in various ways to derive the following additional forms of tourism: internal tourism, national tourism and international tourism.

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The world's largest mass religious assemblage takes place in India at the Kumbh Mela, which attracts over 120 million pilgrims. Other major pilgrimages include the annual Hajj to Mecca, required once in a Muslim's life.

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According to their needs and reasons for travelling, tourists are classified into four broad categories: in modern time. Business and professional tourist leisure and holiday tourists are travelling to visit friends and relatives (VFR) Youth tourists, including backpackers and gap year travellers.

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Cultural tourism is the idea that a place's cultural perception has enough value to make it a destination for travel. Communities characterized by a high level of cultural development are usually associated with a high level of satisfaction about living conditions and wealth.

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