A Comprehensive Report on Current Trends in Travel and Tourism

This report provides an overview of current trends in travel and tourism, focusing on adventure tourism, religious tourism, and package holidays. Adventure tourism is characterized by activities involving risk and exploration, often favored by younger demographics, and is significantly affected by climate and geographical features like mountains. Religious tourism, on the other hand, involves travel for spiritual purposes, such as pilgrimages to Mecca or visits to temples and churches, influenced by religious beliefs and practices. Package holidays cater to travelers with budget constraints, offering pre-arranged trips, and are influenced by factors like income levels and available vacation time. The report examines the factors influencing each type of tourism and provides references to relevant literature. This assignment is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand the dynamic nature of the tourism industry.

CURRENT TRENDS
IN TRAVEL AND
TOURISM

ADVENTURE TOURIST
The adventure tourist are those tourist who travel the world for
exploring new things and the different cultures and rituals for different
countries of the world. The adventure tourism is fully made up from the
adventures and activities which the tourist do in their trips. This trip is
mostly planned by the college and schools students.

The reason behind this is that the young generation is more active and
full of energy so they are more involved in these kind of activities. The
level of risk and danger is very high in this adventure trip because the
activities done in these trips are related to the climbing, road trips,
swimming etc.

Factors affecting the adventures trip
 Climate
The climate affects the adventures trips because if the climate is very
extreme in the places where the tourist has visited, then the trip can get
spoiled very quickly. The climate plays an important role in the success
and failure of the adventures trips.

For Example – If the tourist wants to do river rafting or wants to cross a
river by doing swimming and the weather is too cold, then they won't be
able to do that in that climate. Most of the time in the situation of cold
weather, the snowfall occurs which cannot makes the idea of swimming
and related activities possible for the tourist.

 Mountains
Most of the adventures trips includes the mountain climbing and camping
on the hills and mountains. In this the mountains have to be very strong
and the especially for the campaign purpose the mounts should have a
flat surface where the tents can be placed

The mountains on which tracking is done, should have the capacity to
take the weight of the tourist. The rocks and stones of the mountain
should strong enough for the tracking purpose.

RELIGIOUS TOURIST
 In this the tourist visit the various country for the sake of their
religion and spirituality. The religious trips are made for the peace
and satisfaction of the tourist. These religious trips includes the
pilgrimage tours and church tour which have their own different
reason, values and beliefs. The pilgrimage tours contains the
participation of the tourist in the religious activities and religious
rites.

In this the tourist visit their religious place and they do the rituals and
the religious activities in which they believe that this will direct connect
them with god. The another is the church tourism in which the tourist
visit the temples, monuments, church and mosque.

Factors affecting the religious tourism
 Mecca
It is a holy place visited by the Muslim population of the world. In this
only the people of Muslim community are allowed. Here they worship
and they pray to Prophet Muhammed and takes their blessings. The visit
to the Mecca is considered is known as Hajj in which the people do
fasting for a long period of time before they go for Hajj.

The fasting is not necessary for the people who visit the Mecca, but most
of time people do because of their values and beliefs in Allah.

 Temples
The temples are visited by the Hindu community in which they visit the
holy places such as rivers and temples in which they have beliefs. The
people visit these places for doing the worship and to increase their
spirituality for the god. The visiting the temples are said to be the most
common way to get heaven after the death.

 Church
The Jerusalem and Bethelem are considered to be the most famous and
religious workplace for the Christians. In this the people visit the church
and light the candle in front of Jesus Christ. They do prayer and they have
very strong believe that their prayer will directly reach to the god.

PACKAGE HOLIDAYS.
In this the tourist visit the place with the guidance of some tourist guide.
In this all the expenses incurred in the tour are managed by the guide
and the company who gas offered the tour package to their customers.
The tourist pays an amount which is fixed by the company in which they
organize the trips and other facilities given to the tourist during their
tour

The package tours are made for those people who have low incomes or
they have a fixed budget which they can spend on the travel and
tourism.

Factors affecting package holidays
 Incomes
The major factor which effects the package holidays are the incomes earned by the
people. The people who have low incomes or those who could not afford the travels
in the expensive countries goes for the package holidays. In this they can choose
the package according to their incomes and affordability so that their budget don't
gets disturbed and they can also enjoy the travel and tours to various countries.

The people who have high incomes, they generally do not prefer the
package tourism. The only reason behind this that they have enough
money to travel and make expenses in the foreign countries.

 Annual Leaves
The annual leaves are also a cause why people choose package tourism.
Many times people are not provided with the enough leaves and
holidays from the organization where they are working. So the people
make the trips according to the leaves and holidays they get from their
organization. In case if the organization allows only few leaves to the
employee, then they choose package holiday tour because few days trip
can be budgeted

 Locations
The locations which are not so popular and those in which very less
people prefer to visit and spend their holidays have budgeted package
for the people. As the place which has to be visit is not so popular and do
not have any attraction point, then the country itself will not have their
products and services expensive. They will provide all the services in low
rates which will increase the tourism in their country.

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