Alternative tourism

Alternative tourism combines tourist products or individual tourist services, different from the human resource involved. The term is often referred as "trendy" expression replacing other semantical terms such as "different" or "other tourism", "intelligent" or "motivated tourism", "anti-tourism" or "participative tourism" just to name few of them.

Forms 1
- Active tourism 1.1
- Explore and encounter travel 1.2
- Committed tourism 1.3
Terminology critiques 2
See also 3
References 4
External links 5

Forms

The term "alternative tourism" tries to include the concepts of active tourism as well as explorer and encounter travel even with the concept of committed tourism. The following lists try to enumerate some of the styles of alternative tourism. Sources that state a number of different styles are ^[1] and ^[2]

Active tourism

Explore and encounter travel

historical places
archeological sites
foreign communities
foreign cultures
rural tourism
ecotourism
cultural and historical heritage
wine
traditional cuisine,
ethnography
traditional music
handicrafts

Committed tourism

Voluntary service overseas
Aid and assistance
Archeological digs
International work camps
justice
solidarity tourism
religion

Terminology critiques

Since the term alternative is ambiguous, there are numerous critical remarks stating that the concept is only " (...) a fashionable idea among those who are dissatisfied with the nature of mass tourism (...)".^[3] The critics state, that alternative tourism lacks a clear definition of what is the tourism style alternative to. The origins of the term can be found in two alternating concepts:

Rejection of modern mass consumerism
Concern about the social impact in third-world countries

Others express their critical opinions regarding the term as fetish-adjective, miracle-word, mythical-term.

References

^ Vagionis, N.: Alternative tourism in Bulgaria: diversification and sustainability,
^ Cazes, G. H..: "ALTERNATIVE TOURISM" - REFLECTIONS ON AN AMBIGUOUS CONCEPT, in: Singh, T. V., Theuns, H. L., Go, F. M.: Towards Appropriate Tourism: The Case of Developing Countries, Frankfurt am Main, 1989, ISBN 3-631-40794-7, p. 117-126
^ Cohen, E.: "ALTERNATIVE TOURISM" - A CRITIQUE, in: Singh, T. V., Theuns, H. L., Go, F. M.: Towards Appropriate Tourism: The Case of Developing Countries, Frankfurt am Main, 1989, ISBN 3-631-40794-7, p. 127-142

External links

Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism
Green Olive Tours - Travel Agency for Alternative Tourism in Palestine/Israel
Arttours - Artists exploring alternative tourism in Stuttgart

Tourism

Types	Accessible Adventure Agritourism Alternative Atomic Birth Business Culinary Enotourism Cultural Archaeological Bookstore Music Pop-culture Dark Holocaust Disaster Domestic Drug Ecotourism Shark Extreme Garden Genealogy Geotourism Ghetto Heritage Militarism heritage Honeymoon Jihadi Jungle Justice LGBT Literary Tolkien Medical Dental Nautical Rail Religious Christian Halal Kosher Rural Sacred Safaris Sex Child sex Female sex Slum Space Sports Stag party Suicide Sustainable Vacation Volunteer travel War Water Wellness Wildlife

Hospitality industry	Bed and breakfast Boutique hotel Conference and resort hotels Destination spa Front desk General manager Homestay Hospitality management studies Hospitality services Hostel Hotel Hotel manager Island resort Motel Referral chain Resort Resort town Restaurant Seaside resort Ski resort

Terminology	Campus tour Gift shop Grand Tour Holiday (vacation) Hypermobility Package tour Passport Perpetual traveler Road trip Roadside attraction Souvenir Staycation Sunday drive Tour guide Tour operator Tourism geography Tourism minister Tourism region Tourist attraction Tourist gateway Tourist trap Touron Transport Travel Travel agency Travel behavior Travel document Travel insurance Travel literature Travel medicine Travel survey Travel technology Travel warning Travel website Trip planner Visa Visitor center

Industry organizations, rankings and events	American Bus Association American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute BEST Education Network Caribbean Tourism Organization Destination marketing organization European Travel Commission Historical archive on tourism South-East Asian Tourism Organisation Tourism Radio Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report Wikivoyage World Tourism Day World Tourism Organization World Tourism rankings World Travel and Tourism Council World Travel Monitor

Lists	Adjectival tourisms Bibliography Casinos Casino hotels Hotels Largest hotels in the world Motels Travel magazines UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists World Heritage Sites by country

Category Portal

Categories

This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.

Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles.

By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization.

Alternative tourism