Cultural Tourism

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Cultural tourism is a type of tourism that allows the tourist to participate in local cultural activities, like festivals and rituals. As a result, the tourist can enjoy a genuine cultural exchange with the locals. Examples of cultural tourism experiences include: architectural and archaeological treasures. culinary activities. festivals or events.

Cultural tourism is important for many reasons. Perhaps the most prominent reason is the social impact that it brings. Cultural tourism can help reinforce identities, enhance cross cultural understanding and preserve the heritage and culture of an area. 1.8 million of these, or 63%, were considered to be cultural visitors', with 66% visiting museums or art galleries, 65% historical or heritage buildings, 24% for festivals and 23% participating in First People's cultural activity. The cultural tourism may also bring other negative impacts to the locals such as the local economy might be unstable, costs of living for the locals is increasing, and among other negative effects like pollution, environmental problems, local economy destabilization due to the quick change in the population number. Tourism impacts can be categorized into three: economic, socio-cultural and environmental. It can be positive (beneficial) or negative (detrimental). The impacts also depends on the value and judgment of the observer. Cultural tourism is defined as the enhancement of interaction between different cultures. The travellers can share values on the same platform through visiting natural and cultural resources, historically preserved places, museums and other history values. Culture – set of patterns of human activity within a community or social group and the symbolic structures that give significance to such activity. Customs, laws, dress, architectural style, social standards, religious beliefs, and traditions are all examples of cultural elements. Other consequences of negative culture include gossiping, low employee engagement, higher rates of absenteeism and presenteeism, a lack of empathy, a lack of flexibility and high employee turnover. Tourism often puts pressure on natural resources through over-consumption, often in places where resources are already scarce. Tourism puts enormous stress on local land use, and can lead to soil erosion, increased pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered species. Tourism can in fact teach better than almost any book, but the negative effects of tourism can out way the benefits. Tourism commodifies the culture, affects the environment, and can overlook or change the indigenous culture of a place (Tang). Cultural attractions allow travellers to experience mankind's physical and intellectual creations. Culture in its broadest sense is everything made by humans; however, some feats make greater impressions than others. The UNESCO World Heritage List contains some of these sites, together with natural attractions. Global tourism leaves a giant carbon footprint and it also contributes to large-scale environmental degradation worldwide through the conversion of relatively isolated and previously pristine natural areas into busy travel destinations. Then there are the growing rates of pollution generated by mass tourism. 

Some most important forms of tourism are following as:

  1. Adventure Tourism.
  2. Atomic Tourism.
  3. Bicycle Tours.
  4. Beach Tourism.
  5. Cultural Tourism.
  6. Ecotourism.
  7. Geotourism.
  8. Industrial Tourism.


In addition to the positive impact of inbound tourism on the economy, outbound tourism also entails economic benefits, in that it supports jobs in the travel and airline industries and increases the opportunities of residents to travel to faraway places (Airports Commission, 2013)

4 Types of Organizational Culture

  1. Type 1 - Clan Culture.
  2. Type 2 - Adhocracy Culture.
  3. Type 3 - Market Culture.
  4. Type 4 - Hierarchy Culture.

Examples

  1. Religious and spiritual practices.
  2. Medical treatment practices.
  3. Forms of artistic expression.
  4. Dietary preferences and culinary practices.
  5. Cultural institutions (see also Cultural Institutions Studies)
  6. Natural resource management.
  7. Housing and construction.
  8. Childcare practices.

Cultural values can influence communication orientation, or the degree of interaction between family members, as well as conformity orientation, or the degree of conformity within a family. Because social rules, communication beliefs, all of it, it really is, all in the family. Moreover, new things are added to material culture every day, and they affect nonmaterial culture as well. ... Cultures change when something new (say, railroads or smartphones) opens up new ways of living and when new ideas enter a culture (say, as a result of travel or globalization).

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