Question

Write short note on alternative tourism.

Answer 1

Alternative tourism combines tourist products or individual tourist services, different from the mass tourism by means of supply, organization and the human resourceinvolved. 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.

Answer 2

Tourism refers to travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel.

Tourists visit places due to various reasons such as-

1. Curiosity about off places;

2. To study a place’s culture and ethnicity;

3. To do shopping;

4. To seek adventure;

5. To experience a wide variety of cuisine;

6. In search of peace and relaxation, away from one’s monotonous life.

Most of the reasons to visit places, like learning a place’s culture and ethnicity and tasting good food, are the same, irrespective of the tourists being Indian or foreigner.