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Medical Tourism
Traveling across international borders to obtain health care services and treatments.
Accessible Tourism
Tourism that enables all people to participate in and enjoy tourism experiences, including those with disabilities, seniors, and families with young children.
Travel Itinerary
A detailed plan or route of a traveler's journey.
Dark Tourism
Tourism involving traveling to places historically associated with death and tragedy.
Tourist Leakage
The amount of revenue generated by tourism that leaves the destination country and benefits foreign companies, instead of the local economy.
Adventure Tourism
A type of tourism involving travel to remote or exotic locations in order to participate in physically challenging outdoor activities.
Carrying Capacity
The maximum number of people that may visit a tourist destination at the same time, without causing destruction to the physical, economic, and sociocultural environment or an unacceptable decrease in the quality of visitors' satisfaction.
Wellness Tourism
A type of tourism that allows the traveler to maintain, enhance or kick-start a healthy lifestyle, and support or increase one’s sense of wellbeing.
Glamping
A fusion of glamour and camping, which offers outdoor experiences with a touch of luxury and comfort.
MICE Tourism
A type of tourism where large groups, usually planned well in advance, are brought together for a particular purpose, including Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions.
Culinary Tourism
A subset of tourism concerned with a traveler's engagement with a country or region's food culture, including food tours, restaurant visits, and cooking classes.
Eco-tourism
Tourism directed towards exotic natural environments, intended to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.
Cruise Tourism
A form of tourism which involves a voyage on a cruise ship, where the journey itself and the ship's amenities are a part of the experience, as well as the various destinations along the way.
Gastronomy Tourism
Tourism that focuses on culinary traditions and experiences, encouraging visitors to explore the culture through its flavors and dining customs.
Hospitality
The friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.
Timeshare
A property with a particular form of ownership or use rights where multiple owners have the use of the property, each for a specific period of time annually.
Overtourism
A situation where there are too many visitors to a particular destination, leading to negative impacts such as environmental degradation, poor visitor experiences, and community disruption.
Bleisure Travel
A blend of business and leisure travel where a trip serves both work and enjoyment purposes.
Cultural Tourism
Tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle, the heritage, the arts, the industries, and the leisure pursuits of the area.
Tourism Policy
The overall plan and direction defined by government or an organization regarding the development and promotion of tourism activities in a region or country.
Niche Tourism
Tourism catered to specific interests, hobbies, or activities, targeting specific groups of travelers seeking particular experiences.
Destination Marketing
The process of communicating with potential visitors to influence their destination preference, intention to travel, and ultimately the decision to visit.
Travel Agency
A business that attends to the details of transportation, itinerary, and accommodations for travelers.
Inbound Tourism
Refers to the activities of visitors from other countries traveling to a given country.
Soft Adventure Tourism
A type of adventure tourism that is perceived as low-risk and often involves a guide, including activities like bird watching, fishing, and hiking.
Tourism Satellite Account (TSA)
A standard statistical framework and the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism.
Sustainable Tourism
Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment, and host communities.
Voluntourism
A fusion of volunteering and tourism where individuals travel not only for leisure but also to participate in voluntary work.
Green Tourism
Tourism that focuses on traveling in a way that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people.
Agri-tourism
Tourism that involves any agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch.
Tourism Geography
The study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity, which considers different places, their physical landscapes, the people that live there, and the infrastructures built to support and enhance travel.
Tourism Multiplier Effect
The economic concept that measures the impact of tourist spending in a destination to the overall economy of the area.
Cultural Heritage
The legacy of physical artifacts (cultural property) and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
Outbound Tourism
Tourism that involves residents traveling out of their home country.
Destination Management Organization (DMO)
An organization charged with promoting a destination and enhancing its long-term development.
Heritage Tourism
Traveling to experience the places, artifacts, and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past.
Tour Operator
A company that combines tour and travel components to create a holiday package.
Seasonality
The temporal imbalance in the phenomenon of tourism which may be expressed in terms of dimensions such as number of visitors, expenditure of visitors, traffic on highways, and occupancy of accommodation and other tourism facilities.
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