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5 types of tourism in trend of 2023

Post Covid trends in tourism have seen exponential and steady growth in the travel industry.

Like every industry, travel is influenced by the trends and trends that are in vogue at the moment.

This phenomenon has led to the development of different types of tourism, today we mention some:

  • Domestic tourism

We refer to the movement of residents of a country within its borders. This tourism, following the pandemic, has seen its numbers increase exponentially in all countries. This choice is given by preferring easily accessible destinations because they instill more security.

Domestic tourism allows you to discover your country from a landscape, cultural and much more.

  • Food and wine tourism

In this form of tourism we prefer the use of food and wine as tools to discover the history and culture of the place we visit. So the journey is lived at 360 degrees in the flavors and smells with the use of the two senses of travelers.

Taste local products and dishes at the production companies, participate in cooking classes with local chefs and typical accommodation facilities, participate in the production of wines and local oils, are the must for this type of trip.

  • Spa tourism

 

Increasingly popular in recent years, spa tourism returns to the forefront with its beneficial aspects.

Let yourself be pampered by vapors, natural springs, mud to live a holiday of psychophysical and mental well-being. If you are looking for a relaxing break, the spa is the best choice to make.

You will also have the opportunity to discover places full of history, as well as wellness, as already in use in ancient Roman times. Some lesser known but not to be discarded places for this type of travel are the towns of Bath, Budapest, Aachen and Bucharest. Have a good time!

  • Sustainable tourism

This type of tourism has developed to combat environmental change and is the main trend of the moment. It aims to offer a journey in full contact with a place, but respecting the host community, local culture and the environment. Reducing its environmental impact preserves the uniqueness and authenticity of the places and its natural resources. If you want to know more, we talked about it in this article!

  • Experiential tourism

Last but not least, this tourism has as its function the knowledge of himself coming into contact with nature and the surrounding reality. More and more people embark on this kind of journey in order to create sensory memories, test themselves and challenge their limits in order to live that sense of freedom that only traveling can experience. Experiences like feeding elephants in Thailand or waking up in a desert tent, attending retreats in Buddhist monasteries, diving into the forests of Mangrove or taking a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia.

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The Space Tourism

Space fans, your time has come!



Space tourism is human travel, for recreational and leisure purposes, in space. You can experience the buzz of being tourists in space, traveling to a destination in vast space, watching a rocket launch or watching the stars!


It can be:

  • orbital or you remain in orbit, continuously turning the planet at very high speed to avoid falling back on Earth. It takes several days, even a week or more.
  • suborbital, similar to a space jump, takes off and then makes a huge arc and return to Earth, without ever going into orbit. The duration varies from 2 to 3 hours.
  • lunar, destination: The Moon!


The first space tourist was Tito Dennis, an American billionaire, who spent eight days aboard the International Space Station for $20 million in April 2001. After him, there were six other private citizens.


In the 2000s, Space Tourism became a concrete and real industry, so many companies are entering the industry to capitalize on public interest in space.

The major companies are:

  • Virgin Galactic – takes care of suborbital flights ;
  • Blue Origin – deals with suborbital flights ;
  • SpaceX – are giving priority to lunar tourism and allowed the rental of its spacecraft Crew Dragon ;
  • Boeing – are working on orbital missions ;
  • Axiom Space – are working on orbital missions ;
  • Space Perspective – are developing a balloon system to transport customers to the stratosphere and plans to start its commercial flights by 2024.

The prices for this experience range from $125,000 to $55 million and this is the most significant barrier to space tourism.
In addition to the economic factor, space tourism is harmful to the environment.

During the combustion of rocket fuels, rocket engines release harmful gases and soot particles into the upper atmosphere, thereby depleting ozone.
However, companies are working on using engines powered by liquid hydrogen, which does not emit carbon, but turns into water vapor during combustion.


The ultimate pitfall of space tourism are the effects you could have!

  1. weightlessness: remember that during a suborbital flight you will only have a couple of minutes free of gravity, but it will be awesome!
  2. Space adaptation syndrome: with symptoms such as cold sweating, malaise, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and fatigue.
  3. force G. 1G is the acceleration that we perceive due to gravity, during a rocket launch is about 3G.


If you have not been intimidated and if you are fascinated by Space, this is the trip that is right for you!

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Sustainable Tourism – The Green Choice

Sustainable tourism is a philosophy inspired by sustainable development and includes all forms of environmentally friendly tourism and attention to the well-being of the host populations.


Responsible tourism meet certain requirements, such as:

  • Make optimum use of environmental resources by preserving essential ecological processes and contributing to the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity.
  • Respect the socio-cultural authenticity of the host communities, preserve and contribute to intercultural tolerance and understanding.
  • Ensure long-term sustainable economic activities by providing equitable socio-economic benefits, including stable employment and income opportunities, social services for host communities and contributing to the fight against poverty.
  • Allow the tourist to live interesting experiences, while raising awareness of the impact that his trip has on the places visited.

 

The sustainable development of tourism has as its objective not only the fight against waste and the use of polluting materials, but proactive actions that create well-being and opportunities for the territory and requires constant control of the impact that travelers have on the local population and environment.

There are various types of sustainable tourism:

  • Community tourism: It is a form of tourism in which hospitality is entirely managed by the local population.

  • Slow Tourism: It consists in discovering a destination at your own pace. This movement is a real lifestyle.

  • Fair tourism: Inspired by fair trade that allows a fairer remuneration of local communities.

  • Participatory tourism: Reinvents hospitality by actively involving the traveller in local life.

  • Ecotourism: It respects the environment and the well-being of people, is practiced exclusively in the natural environment and must be a source of sustainable funding for the host communities.

  • Solidarity tourism: It creates a bond of solidarity between the traveller and the populations. A financial contribution from the traveller or tour operator is donated to local development projects.

  • Agrotourism: This is sustainable tourism in agricultural environments. Its objective is to facilitate the meeting with the producer and to perpetuate the activity allowing him to diversify between visits, tastings and recreational activities.

  • Humanitarian tourism: ethical and sustainable stay, which contributes to the improvement of the living conditions of local populations. Conveying knowledge and contributing to local development are all tasks that tourists are encouraged to participate in.


The aim of traveling and promoting a green choice is to limit air pollution, gas emissions, enhance the resources of the territory, protect the flora and fauna of the place.

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Accessible Tourism – Tourism for All.

The holiday is the moment of recreation and relaxation par excellence, but for those who experience a situation of disability or temporary discomfort that limits it in mobility may face more than one obstacle that makes the “Inaccessible Tourism“.

 

“I dream of seeing people with disabilities travel and move freely around the world, find every tourist destination accessible […] enter a travel agency, ask for a holiday to any destination and receive as an answer: sorry, but all accessible rooms are already booked for the coming months! Maybe I can’t go on vacation but I would be happy because we will finally have a Tourism For All”.

Roberto Romeo – President ANGLAT (Associazione Nazionale Guida Legislazione Andicappati Trasporti)

 

Accessible Tourism can be defined as the set of products and services of the entire tourist service chain that are designed for everyone and without barriers, allowing customers with special access requests, including mobility, sight, hearing and cognitive dimension, to enjoy the holiday and free time without difficulties or obstacles independently and with equity and dignity through the availability of products, services and tourist environments universally studied.

 

Also known as Tourism for All, Inclusive Tourism and Tourism without barriers is enterprise and not social assistance, because the person with disabilities is a tourist, a customer and a guest just like others.

In the World more than 1 billion people live with a disability.

The United Nations estimates that the figure is 2 billion, including family members and assistants.

To meet the demands of tourists with special needs, in addition to eliminating architectural barriers in individual structures, it is necessary to design a hospitable system that allows you to live a complete holiday experience.

What does a service or facility need to be accessible?

  • When the relevant information is accessible, it is therefore easily available, understandable and effective.
  • When they are easily accessible and fully usable once reached.
  • When the staff working there is prepared to respond to various types of needs.
  • When they are inserted in an accessible “net” (hotels, means of transport, restaurants, places of interest in the surroundings).

The goal of Tourism for All is to allow all people to live a travel experience as independently as possible and with the opportunity to know new realities.

It aims to remove any cultural, architectural and communication barriers and to offer superior experiences for the entire society.

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