Saturday, January 3, 2015

Types Of Tourists

There aren't any hard and fast rules for the classification of tourists. Tourist typologies are divided under different headings by different experts, researchers and the various scholars have tried to find out different categories of tourists covering most of the typologies based upon the tour type, age group, economy, purpose of visit, places of visit, or destination & duration of stay etc.

  1. On the Basis of Tour Type, Tourist Category can be Categorized into 2 groups:
  • FIT - Free Individual Tourist/Tour..
  • GIT - Group Inclusive Tourist/Tour
      2. On the Basis of Age Group, Tourist Category can be Categorized into Following Groups:
  • Student -  Travel for Education tour
  • Youth - They are usually budget tourist with the interest if advance
  • Old - The basic motivations for such tourist is city and luxury tours
      3. According to size of group:
  • Individual tourist
  • Group tourist
  • Family group tourist
      4.  On the basis of Economy:
  • Budget - Low expending tourist
  • Standard - Medium class tourist
  • Deluxe - High spending tourist
      5. On the Basis of Destination:
  •  Domestic/Internal Tourist - Tourist traveling within the country i.e in bound tourist
  • International/External Tourist - Tourist traveling out the country i.e The out bound tourist
       6.According to the Purpose of visit:
  • Excursionist - An excursionist is the one day visitor to a place who does an act of excursion within the time less than 24 hours in the place of visit. The excursion is a short tour to a place of interest which involves stay less than 24 hours.
  • Tourist - Tourist is a person who does the act of tour staying at least 24 hour but not exceeding one consecutive year in the place visited 
       7. According to the Definition Given by World Tourism Organization:
  • Leisure Tourist - Traveling for pleasure on leisure
  • Recreational Tourist - Travel for recreation, relaxation and entertainment
  • Holiday Tourist - Travel for enjoying holidays
  • Study Tourist -  Travel for educational research, tour and study etc.
  • Special Mission Tourist - Travel for special mission like shopping, meetings, seminars etc
  • Religious Tourist - Travel for pilgrimage purpose
  • VFR ( Visiting Friends & Relatives) Tourist

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