Alternative tourism
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Alternative tourism combines tourist products or individual tourist services, different from the mass tourism by means of supply, organization and the human resource involved. 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.
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The term "alternative tourism" tries to include the concepts of active tourism as well as explorer and encounter travel even with the concept of committed tourism. The following lists try to enumerate some of the styles of alternative tourism.
Active tourism
- rambling
- hiking
- trekking
- biking
- "Adventure"-traveling
- snowshoeing
- ski mountaineering
- rafting
- diving
- caving
- climbing
- horseback riding
Explore and encounter travel
- historical places
- archeological sites
- foreign communities
- foreign cultures
- rural tourism
- ecotourism
- cultural and historical heritage
- wine
- traditional cuisine,
- ethnography
- traditional music
- handicrafts
Committed tourism
- Voluntary service overseas
- Aid and assistance
- Archeological digs
- International work camps
- justice
- solidarity tourism
- religion
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