Niche Tourism
News, views, and reviews on niche tourism sectors for the travel trade. Articles include niche sectors such as Adventure Tourism, Avitourism, Cruise Tourism, Culture Tourism, Ecotourism, Film Tourism, Responsible Tourism, Accessible Tourism, Voluntourism, Youth Tourism, Wine Tourism, and more.
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How To Tap Into The Ecotourism Niche Market
For tourism organisations wanting to tap into the growing ecotourism niche tourism market, the International Ecotourism Society provides the answers.…
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31 Niche Tourism Groups
If you thought that Niche Tourism covers just a handful of interest groups, think again. In the 5th edition of…
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Glamtrails making tracks in Hemel en Aarde
Cape Town, 10 September 2019. An exciting new tourism offering, Glamtrails, presenting exclusive walking tours with wine and food experiences,…
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Ecotourism: A Case Study
Ecotourism is about uniting conservation, communities, and sustainable travel. This means that tourists who participate in ecotourism activities want reassurance…
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Exploring the Benefits of Film Tourism
Film tourism is a growing phenomenon worldwide, motivated by both the growth of the entertainment industry and the increase in…
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An Insight Into Fashion Tourism
On this website, we’ve blogged about niche tourism groups but have not posted about the growing trend of fashion tourism.…
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Why Health Tourism Has Become Popular For Surgery
As any an avid traveller will have noticed, there’s a new type of tourist appearing on our flights. They’re not…
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Cape Town now an international trail running Mecca for tourists
Now in its fifth year, Ultra-trail Cape Town (UTCT) has established itself as a bucket list race for ultra distance…
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The Importance of Responsible Tourism in Africa
Tourism, wherever it is aimed, brings with it challenges and can have a negative impact on the local area and…
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A Guide to Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism, or culture tourism as it is sometimes called, is a type of niche tourism that attempts to represent…
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The Worlds Largest Adult Traveller Population
If the world’s volunteers were to form a single country, known as Volunteerland, they would form the largest adult population…
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How to gain Green Flag Trails accreditation
Tourists want reassurance. For this reason, hotels are star graded, beaches are awarded Blue Flag status, and clean and safe…
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Food Tourism: How to Get your Slice of the Pie
Food tourism is all the rage. Just look at the last decade’s vast surge in consumer interest in food and…
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Avitourism in South Africa
In this article Leon Marais of Lawson’s Birding, Wildlife & Custom Safaris Tours offers tips for Tour Operators and accommodation…
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Taking Responsible Tourism to China
Deborah Calmeyer is a woman on a mission. She is the first South African businesswoman to speak at the prestigious…
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Accessible Tourism For All
In the spirit of mainstreaming disability issues, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) General Assembly adopted a Resolution entitled…
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Accessible Tourism Manual
In the context of the trilateral agreement between UNWTO, ONCE and ENAT, an update of the 2005 UNWTO Recommendations on…
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How to Apply Responsible Tourism Practices
The benefits derived from responsible tourism practices are well documented, but in practice the implementation of these principles can be…
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Voluntourism: Keeping it Sustainable
In the last few decades volunteer tourism has become a phenomenon; up to 10 million participating and generating up to…
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Youth Tourism Trends
STAY (Safe Travel Accommodation for Youth) WYSE Association, the global trade body for the youth travel accommodation sector, has launched…
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Adventure Tourism: SCUBA Diving
Adventure tourism, and SCUBA diving in particular, has become an immensely popular leisure tourism activity, specifically over the past 10…
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Using Film Festivals as a Tourism Marketing Tool
Considering the limited marketing budgets that most tourism organisations face, film festivals and film productions can be leveraged as an…
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Red tape tourism
Could Home Affairs offices, licencing departments and similar facilities in South Africa’s small towns compete on service delivery to create…
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MSC Opera starts her maiden SA season in style
To mark the luxury cruise ship’s maiden call in the ports of Cape Town (refer article in November edition of…
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How important is Wine Tourism to South Africa?
Tourism is one of six identified key drivers of the country’s economy and the wine industry indirectly contributes more than…
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Cruise Tourism gets a boost as luxury ship sets sail for South Africa
On November 1st, the magnificent MSC Opera will embark on a southbound voyage to South Africa, where she will begin…
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Cruise Tourism Potential in South Africa
I receive many email replies to my column “Talking Tourism”, which is particularly rewarding. These emails include many from local…
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