HISTOBLOG: TYPES OF TOURISM

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

TYPES OF TOURISM

TYPES OF TOURISM

Tourism industry is the kind of industry associated with providing leisure activities concerned with travel, natural beauty, food, accommodation, environment and other facilities for the people who are visiting a place for any reason.

HEALTH TOURISM

This segment of tourism consisting of programmes and activities developed to improve or balance the physical or spiritual condition of an individual or group of persons. Examples: yoga workshops, detoxification clinics, spas, etc.

EDUCATION TOURISM

The segment of tourism consists of programmes and activities for learning, training or increasing knowledge on site, involving students and teachers with local professionals. Examples: anthropology, botany, cookery, languages, photography, zoology, etc.

TRADE AND CONFERENCE TOURISM

Multinational companies hold their conferences and meeting veneus in the central point country in favor of the participants from different countries to visit with ease and to save long distance overhead costs.

RECREATIONAL TOURISM

This type of tourism is concerned with leisure and rest recover physical and psychic stamina. Recreational tourism is often sand, sea and sex-promoted by beautiful color pictures; that make the visitors to be ‘there’-on.

HISTORICAL TOURISM

The segment of tourism deals with the magnificence of the past. In this type of tourism, people generally visit museums, and cathedrals. The tourists involved in this type need special guidance for detailed information regarding ruins and monuments.

SPORT TOURISM

The segment of tourism consisting of programmes and activities for the specific purposes of promoting the practice of sports by amateurs and professionals. Examples: mounteering, golf, diving, fishing, windsurfing.

ECO-TOURISM

Eco-Tourism is often ancillary to ethic tourism, attracting tourist elite to remote areas. This type of tourism is primarily geographic and many education oriented travelers enjoy through mountains and countryside to observe man-land relationships, etc.

ADVENTURE TOURISM

This is the segment of tourism which consists of programmes and activities with the expeditions, full of challenges and surprises. This types of tourism include like bunjey jump,mountain climbing.treacking etc.

CULTURAL TOURISM

This tourism provides knowledge about culturally rich city or region. This includes the local color or picturesque.Cultural tourism upgarde the religion of the different ethic group.It promotes the development of culture one country to another country.

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JOBS 4 HISTORY STUDENTS

Career options for students who have finished their graduation in history are quite high.Students can appear for the UPSC or the state wide PSC tests.Almost 40 % of I.A.S examination questions are taken from history.Those who like the teaching profession can get the B.Ed (after BA) or M.Ed (after MA) degree and apply for teacher or Assistant Professor positions. Many other job options are available for B A history Student. A few include:Archivists,Information Managers, Librarians, Public Relations officer,Records Managers, Teaching,Law, Research, Diplomacy,Public service,Journalism, Ministry,Insurance, Politics,Publishing,Archaeologist,Archivist,Historical researcher, Museum work,Secondary school teacher,Tour guide,University lecturer etc.

"Gandhi as the ascetic defender of property,the mascot of the bourgoisie and in actual achievement -statistics as the Jonah of Revolution"..By R P Dutt.... “I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles”.by Jacques Derrida."History is the witness of the times, the torch of the truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity."- By Cicero, Roman Oratore "All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon" By Voltaire.“D D Kosambi and R S Sharma,together with Daniel Thorner,brought peasants into the study of indian history for the first time”.Comment of Irfan Habib."I only accept awards from academic institutions or those associated with my professional work,and not state awards".[Romila Thapar on her refusal to accept padma bhshan in 1992.......]"If HUME and other English liberals hoped to use Congress as a SAFETY VALVE ,the Congress leaders hoped to use HUME as a lightening conductor".[Words of BIPIN CHANDRA...]

HISTORICAL FACTS.

1-Facts are importand for the constuction of history.2-Anything which gives us some idea about the past or present or future can be termed as fact.3-it is also called sources.4-sources are two kinds PRIMARY AND SECONDARY.5-Primary or Direct sources are anything which gives us information directly.6-Secondary sources or Indirect sources provides information indirectly.7-TERTIARY sources are used to describe a work which is a compilation of primary and secondary sources.It focused on the identification of scholarly work than on content. For example :bibliography,library catalog,directories etc.8-That is why RANKE said”NO SOURCES,NO HISTORY”.9-To Ranke “all kinds of sources should be subjected to criticism.10-HEURISTICS means searching of facts or sources.11-HERMENEUTICS aims to find out the authenticity or veracity of the sources.12-DEDUCTIVE METHOD is a type of reasoning from general to particular.13-INDUCTIVE METHOD is a reasoning from particular to general.

HISTORIAN OF THIS MONTH

K.P.PADMANABHA MENON Born in October 1857. Father: Diwan Peshkar Sankunny Menon. Mother: Parvathy Amma. K.P. Padmanabha Menon was the son of Diwan Peshkar Sankunni Menon who for the first time attempted to write the history of Travancore. Through his work Kerala Charithram (History of Kerala), Padmanabha Menon surpassed the talents of his father. Padmanabha Menon was an eminent Advocate, Judge and Historian. He also wrote Kochi Rajya Charithram (History of Cochin). He was also the Advocate General of Madras Government and member of Marumakkathayam Committee. He died on 1 May 1919.

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TYPES OF TOURISM

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