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Types of Tourism Products
Natural Tourism Product
This kind of product includes mostly attractions that act as a pull factor for a visitor to visit a destination. Natural settings such as unique landscape, dense forest, mountains, lakes and beaches have traditionally been center for attraction for tourists worldwide.
Man-made Tourism Product
Human being over centuries, have created facilities for comfort of living. Such creations are natural manifestations of human endeavor in the process of evolution. Such manifestations, elegant structure or facilities by creative humans become attraction for commons in the civilization. These types of products include not only core attractions but facilities and services those have made a mark in themselves and have become attractions for most.
For example palace on wheel, tourists train basically a mode for transportation is graduated as an attraction in itself. Theme park is another example of man-made attraction, which means the basic term for a compilation of rides and other amusement attractions pull together for the purpose of entertaining a group of people. A theme park includes a combination of attractions which can be classified into several categories: thrill rides, roller coasters, family rides, water attractions or (indoor) dark rides. Major part of theme parks’ revenue comes from entrance fees.
Most theme parks also charge for car parking and ticket prices do not include food, which can be very costly. Almost all amusement parks operate using one of two admission principles: Pay as you go (pay for rides individually) or Pay one price (one big admission charge, for almost all of the attractions).
Symbiotic Tourism Product
Apart from pure natural and man-made products there are some types of products which are blend of both natural and man-made features. For instance a zoo, a water park, aero sports zone are human creations at natural attractions. Nature here is the core resource on which human being has created facilities. These products thus are called as creations by symbiosis of nature and man.
Site Based Tourism Products
When an attraction is a physical setting at place or a site it is termed as site based tourism product. As physical settings such sites are permanent and can only be modified but cannot be replaced totally. For examples beaches, hill stations, monuments & historical places. There are occasions/ seasons however when tourists flock to the destination in large number.
Event Based Tourism Products
Where an event is an attraction, tourists visit the event as spectators, participants or sometimes for both. The events may be traditional, occasional or promotional in nature. The famous Bibahpanchami, Ramnavmi and Parikarma at Janakpurare traditional gathering of more than lakhs of pilgrims. Occasional events are social or cultural gatherings for examples marriages, parties, conferences and conventions or business meets where participants belong to specific target group.
On the other hand promotional events are gatherings organized to popularize the destination or a company product or are gatherings for some specific purpose. Street Festival at lakeside of Pokhara is promotional event organized by NTB, Paschimanchal hotel association pokhara and other tourism related organizations and is attended by thousands of spectators. Event as tourist attractions are temporary, and are often mounted in order to increase the number of tourists to a particular destination.
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