Adjectival Tourisms are all those forms of tourism that have an adjective in front of them. I can currently think of two broad forms of adjective tourisms. The first is niche tourism markets -- those that focus on the special interests of particular clients. This is also known as Specialty Tourism.
The second approach consists of ways that academics describing the phenomenon of tourism and broad forms of tourism, including the tourism and travel experience and tourism landscapes and economies. I refer to these as Conceptual Tourisms.
The second approach consists of ways that academics describing the phenomenon of tourism and broad forms of tourism, including the tourism and travel experience and tourism landscapes and economies. I refer to these as Conceptual Tourisms.
These approaches are both listed below, in separate sections, along with an Unusual Tourisms section for concepts that have been thrown out there, but have not, in my opinion, gained any use. To get more information on any of the terms in this list, you can simply search for them in your favorite search engine.
Suggestions for additions, as well as appropriate links, are welcome in the comments section.
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Specialty Niche Tourism Markets
For many of these, the word "Travel" is interchangeable with "Tourism"
- - Aboriginal Tourism (also Tribal Tourism and Native American Tourism)
- - Active Tourism (participating in sport activities)
- - Adventure Tourism (usually outdoors; also Extreme Adventure)
- - Adventurous Leisure
- - Aerial Tourism (also Flightseeing)
- - Agritourism (or Farm Tourism)
- - Alternative Tourism (involving risk)
- - Alternative Sport (involving risk or counter culture)
- - Ancestral Tourism (see also Roots Tourism)
- - Armchair Tourism (also Vicarious Travel -- experiencing travel without traveling)
- - Atomic Tourism (also Nuclear Tourism)
- - Atrocity Tourism (also War, Disaster, etc., below)
- - Audio Tours / Tourism
- - Backpack Tourism (or Youth Backpack Tourism)
- - Battlefield Tourism
- - Beach Tourism (see also SSS, below)
- - Birth Tourism
- - Border Tourism (or Cross-Border Tourism)
- - Business Travel
- - Celebrity Tourism (including Celebrity Cruises)
- - Commodity Tourism (based on fishing, agriculture, etc.; includes Plantation Tourism)
- - Community Based Tourism (or Community Supported Tourism)
- - Corruption Tourism
- - Cruise Tourism
- - Culinary Tourism
- - Diaspora Tourism (related to Roots Tourism)
- - Disaster Tourism
- - Dark Tourism
- - Death Tourism (Dark Tourism to sites of disaster and death)
- - Dental Tourism (a form of Medical Tourism)
- - Desert Tourism
- - Dive Tourism (SCUBA)
- - Drug Tourism (to buy legal or illegal drugs)
- - Ecotourism (or Eco-tourism in some countries)
- - Educational Tourism (or Edutourism)
- - Emersive Tourism (educational, volunteer, adventure and working travel)
- - Enclave Tourism
- - Engagementcations
- - Equestrian Tourism
- - Ethnic Tourism
- - Event Tourism (or Special Event Tourism, including Festivals)
- - Extreme Tourism
- - Fare Travel (application of "fare trade" to travel and tourism)
- - FIT - Fully Independent Travel (or Free and Independent Travel)
- - Good Tourism (also Gastronomy Tourism)
- - Free and Easy Travel (transportation and accommodations only package)
- - Gambling of Gaming Tourism
- - Garden Tourism
- - Gay Tourism (also LGBT Tourism - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender)
- - Gay Marriage Tourism
- - Geography Tourism (also Extreme Geography Tourism)
- - Geoparks Tourism (geology-based parks)
- - Geotourism (related to GeoParks, and to Sustainable Tourism)
- - Girlfriend Getaway (all female trip)
- - GIT - Group Inclusive Travel (also All Inclusive Holiday, related to Package Tour)
- - Golf Tourism
- - Green Tourism (related to Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism)
- - Greif Tourism (related to Thanatourism)
- - Halal Tourism (sensitive to Islamic practices)
- - Health Tourism (overlapping with Wellness Tourism, Medical Tourism and New Age Tourism)
- - Heat Tourism
- - Heritage Tourism
- - Hobby Tourism
- - Homeless Tourism / Tours
- - Homestay Tourism (also Village Stay Tourism and Kampung Stay Tourism)
- - Hot-Spot Tourism (places of current conflict)
- - Incentive Travel (gift or award vacations for employees)
- - Inclusive Tourism (for disability travelers)
- - Independent Tour Groups (aka "Donkey Friends" in China)
- - Island Tourism
- - Jihad Tourism (travel to support one side in a Muslim conflict)
- - Jobbatical (work exchange sabbatical)
- - Honeymoon (or Second Honeymoon)
- - Libel Tourism
- - Literary Tourism
- - Local Travel (aka Proximity Tourism; related to Staycation)
- - Mass Tourism
- - Maternity Tourism
- - Medical Tourism (also Organ Tourism and Transplant Tourism)
- - Meditation Tourism
- - MICE - Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions and Exhibitions
- - Mountain Tourism
- - Nautical Tourism
- - New Age Tourism
- - Nightlife Tourism (also Entertainment Tourism)
- - Package Tourism (related to GIT)
- - Perpetual Tourism ("travel as a way of life")
- - Photography (or Photo) Tourism
- - Plantation Tourism (Agritourism to tropical plantations)
- - Poverty Tourism (or Poorism)
- - Pro-Poor Tourism
- - Proximity Tourism (aka Local Travel; related to Staycation)
- - Reality Tourism (real world experiences; often related to Responsible Tourism and Poverty Tourism)
- - Relationship Tourism (experimenting with brief, non-committal relationships, such as this)
- - Religious Tourism (or Faith Tourism; includes Pilgrimage)
- - Residential Tourism (retirement in another country)
- - Respite Tourism (for care givers)
- - Responsible Tourism (or Purposeful Tourism)
- - Reunion Tourism
- - River Cruise Tourism
- - Romance Tourism (or Female Sex Tourism, as opposed to Male Sex Tourism)
- - Roots Tourism (or Genealogy tourism; related to Diaspora Tourism)
- - Ruin Porn (related to: #urbex, hidden city, abandoned america)
- - Rural Tourism
- - Second Home Tourism (also Vacation Home)
- - Senior Tourism
- - Sex Tourism (also Child Sex Tourism)
- - Shopping Tourism
- - Social Tourism (meaning social welfare, associated with European communist policies)
- - Space Tourism
- - Sports Tourism
- - SSS - Sun, Sand and Surf (also Sand, Surf and Sex)
- - Staycation (became widely used in Summer 2008; a form of Local Travel and Proximity Tourism)
- - Thanatourism (meaning 'death' related tourism)
- - Urban Tourism
- - Vacation Rental Travel
- - VFR - Visiting Friends and Relatives
- - Virtual Tourism (a modern form of Armchair Tourism)
- - Volunteer Tourism (also Voluntourism)
- - War Tourism
- - Wine Tourism (a form of Culinary Tourism)
- - Winter (Sports) Tourism
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New and Unusual TourismsThese are terms that I have come across, but I consider them concepts that are not yet used in any regular way -- at least not be most people and academics. ...Or perhaps I just feel uncomfortable putting them in either of the lists above.
- Babymoon (a pre-birth honeymoon)
- Biotourism (travel to biological sites and sights)
- Black-Hole Tourism/Resorts (disconnecting from technology)
- Book Town tourism
- Celebration Vacations
- Community Assistance Tourism
- Creative Tourism (tourist participation indestination arts)
- Danger Tourism
- Deep Tourism (as opposed to shallow or supericial tourism, like "deep ecology")
- Emo Tourism
- Fire Tourism
- Forever Tourism (a trip from which one never returns)
- Genetourism (from the Greek, genesis = birth; tourism to birth places of famous people)
- Graffiti Tourism (travel to commit graffiti)
- Infadelity Tourism
- Intrabound Tourism (intra-regional? - appears on several websites, including Wikipedia, but is never defined)
- Killing-Fields Tourism (a form of Thanatourism)
- Lest We Forget Tourism (or Never-Again Tourism, meaning in rememberance of events that we should not forget)
- Libel Tourism (I am not sure this is really tourism)
- Libertine Tourism (aka 'Naughty Travel' - for swingers)
- Mea culpa Tourism (or perhaps Guilt Tourism; related to Lest We Forget Tourism)
- Mancation (an all male trip)
- Momcation (for mothers)
- Pornographic Tourism
- Purposeful Tourism (also Meaningful Tourism, related to Volunteer Tourism)
- Resolution Tourism (as in New Years resolutions)
- Riot Tourism
- Sado-masochistic Tourism
- Summer Communes
- Tummy Tuck Travel (medical tourism for plastic surgery)
- Ultra Budget Travel
- Unguided Travel (random explorations of place)
Related to this list is an article on The Worst Travel Trends.
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Conceptual Tourisms - for Academic Research
These are more on the theoretical and academic concepts of tourism experiences and landscapes.
- - Active / Passive Tourism
- - Authentic Tourism (or Tourism and Authenticity)
- - Behavioral Tourism (studying tourist behavior and decision making)
- - Clustered Tourism (or Destination Tourism) / Dispersed Tourism (or Touring Tourism)
- - Critical Tourism (or Critical Tourism Studies)
- - Deep Play (or Deep and Dangerous Play; involving risk)
- - Existential (Authenticity) Tourism
- - Experimental / Participatory Tourism
- - Experiential Tourism
- - Globalization / Localization / Hybrid Tourism
- - Inbound/ Outbound Tourism
- - Inauthentic / Placeless / Staged Tourism
- - Modern / Postmodern Tourism (or Pomo Tourism and Post-Tourists)
- - Pro-Poor / Responsible Tourism
- - Recreational Tourism
- - Serious Leisure (the opposite of Recreational Tourism)
- - Sustainable Tourism
- - Tourism 2.0, Travel 2.0, Tourism 3.0 and Travel 3.0
- - Tourism Incognita (the unexpected and unknown in travel)
- - Tourism Resilience
- - Structured Tourism
