a type of tourism involving travel to remote or exotic locations in order to take part in physically challenging outdoor activities. Mountaineering expeditions, trekking, bungee jumping, rafting and rock climbing are frequently cited as an examples of adventure tourism.
2. Cultural Tourism
Cultural Tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion(s), and other elements that helped shape their way of life.
3. Ecotourism
tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, especially to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife. A responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education.
4. Business Tourism
Business tourism is a more limited and focused subset of regular tourism. During business tourism (traveling), individuals are still working and being paid, but are doing so away from both their workplace and home. Some definitions of tourism tend to exclude business travel.
5. Educational Tourism
Educational tourism is one of the fastest growing areas of the travel and tourism and one that is too often overlooked by tourism professionals and marketers, focused on the development of the educational institution to make it a tourist destination.
6. Space Tourism
Space Tourism is the term that's come to be used to mean ordinary members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back the practice of traveling into space for recreational purposes.
7. Religious Tourism
Religious tourism, also commonly referred to as faith tourism, is a type of tourism, where people travel individually or in groups for pilgrimage, missionary, or leisure (fellowship) purposes. The world's largest form of mass religious tourism takes place at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
8. Medical Tourism
Medical tourism refers to people traveling to a country other than their own to obtain medical treatment. In the past this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment unavailable at home.However, in recent years it may equally refer to those from developed countries who travel to third-world countries for lower priced medical treatments.
9. Geotourism
Tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place — its environment, heritage, aesthetics, culture, and the well-being of its residents.
10. Sports Tourism
Sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or participating in a sporting event staying apart from their usual environment. Sport tourism is a fast-growing sector of the global travel industry and equates to $7.68 billion.There are several classifications on sport tourism. Gammon and Robinson suggested that the sports tourism are defined as Hard Sports Tourism and Soft Sports Tourism, while Gibson suggested that there are three types of sports tourism included Sports Event Tourism, Celebrity and Nostalgia Sport Tourism and Active Sport Tourism.
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