There are different Futuristic Tourism Trend of Tourism which are getting popular among the travelers and giving unique edge to destinations:
- Medical Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend is where people who live in one country travel to another country to receive medical care while at the same time receiving equal or greater care than they would in their own country. It can happen from one city to another city as well.
For Example- Mr. Malcolm has dissymmetrical face and s soon as he got his first salary, he opted to go to South Korea, famous for its plastic surgery treatments. He got best consultation there with affordable rate and got his face fixed making him seem more attractive and confident. He can easily be called as medical tourist.
- Health Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend is the wider term for travel focuses on medical treatments and use of healthcare services. It includes travel with the purpose of attaining sound health of body, mind, and soul through meditation, Ayurveda, Yoga, and other healing methods.
For Example- An American couple booked a yoga and meditation course of 3 months in a remote village in hills of Uttarakhand, North India. The couple had been depressed for the loss of their child in an accidents and seek peace and salvation of their mind and soul. Eventually, this health tourism brought them to realise purpose of their life and they seemed to have been living at peace.
- Eco Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend involves visiting fragile, pristine and undisturbed natural areas. It means responsible travel to natural areas, conserving environment and improved well being of local people. It is not sustainable by creating destinations in natural areas but it is sustainable to sensitize people to the beauty and fragility of nature.
For Example– A group of 3 friends visited a remote village in Eastern part of Sikkim, India to get to know culture of people living there. They stayed and experienced the life style of the people and themselves practiced it, eventually carrying out eco-tourism. Through their travel, though they intertced with the locals, no harm done to their surrounding environment.
- Rural Tourism: An actively touristic participation in a rural lifestyle. It minimizes impact of rapid urban development. CNBC awarded Village Hodka, Kuchchh, Gujarat as best income generating rural site. The year 2009 is celebrated as Rural tourism year.
For example– For weekend holiday, a family planned to have an overnight stay in a nearby farm and experience rural life. The farm markets itself as giving authentic experience rural life to its visitors, and offers many rural based attractions including home made meal preparation, pottery making etc.
There are 15 Indian advanced stage of developed rural villages which offer authentic rural life experiences:
- Jyotisar (Haryana)
- Naggar (Himachal Pradesh)
- Pranpur (Uttar Pradesh)
- Samode (Rajasthan)
- Hodka (Gujarat)
- Chaugar (Madhya Pradesh)
- Poocham (A. P)
- Banawasi (Karnataka)
- Kumbalanghi (Kerala)
- Aranmula (Kerala)
- Sualkuchi (Assam)
- Lachen (Sikkim)
- Ballavpu Donga (West Bengal)
- Nepura (Bihar)
- Karaikudi (Tamil Nadu)
- Agro Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend involves any agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm/ranch. It is a niche tourism products and tours where there are chances to work on cattle ranches, WWOOF (Willing workers on Organic Farms), PYO (Pick Your Own) where direct marketing from farm to table is strategized.
For example– This is further stretch to the rural tourism in which Mr. Baloach and his family shifted to a farm for some time to live their life and experience through performing agricultural related activities.
- Countryside Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend is the pet name of rural tourism with all facilities and rural lifestyle.
For Example– Dr. Awasthi along with his friends has been planning to rent his farmhouse to tourists looking for a natural and peaceful stay in the countryside, away from the bustling city life. Such staycations are high in demand where city people wants to spend some time to relax their mind and have leisure activities.
- Green Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend represents businesses getting greener by being more economical friendly using materials that is related to natural environment and cultural heritage.
For example– A travel agency in Jaipur offers Bamboo made water bottles to its travelers during start of their travels, in order to promote sustainable and green products and discourage usage of plastic bottles.
- Wilderness tourism: It become more popular as in adventure sports among international tourists. It involves trekking, camping in wild. The famous destinations are:
- British Columbia
- Yellowstone National Park
- Amazon Wilderness
- Pantanal Wetland
- Cougar National Park
- Kakadoo National Park
- Film Tourism: It is considered as branch of Cultural tourism. In this tourism, famous movies that had been shot in various locations have been made into an attraction.
For example– Famous web series in HBO, Game of Thrones had made eastern European destinations popular by shooting their scenes there increasing the tourist arrivals in those destinations.
- MICE Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend stands for Meeting, Incentives, Conferencing and Exhibitions. Basically, the tourism involves travel for business purposes, and visiting a destination.
For example– A Pharma company offered its top salesmen a complete package to visit a convention happening in some other country and find out new trends. This will make the salesmen more informative and upgraded while they network with other people present there. In addition, the salesmen also get chance to explore the country they visited, carrying out MICE tourism.
- Caravan tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend constitutes RVs, Campervans, Motor homes where one can travel and stay in the same vehicle containing all daily facilities.
For example– After covid-19, a couple resisted staying in hotels while planning or their travel. So they, converted their mini van into a motor home or camper van where they modified their seats with sleeping spaces and added kitchen equipment as well. This, their van became an avid companion in their travel and they traveled hassle-free without stay in any hotels.
- Adventure tourism: The exploration on travel with a certain degree of risk on life, Mountain trekking, Bungee jumping and many more.
For example– A group of college students during their summer holiday visited a beach destination in Phuket, Thailand. They indulged into various water based adventurous activities like Scuba Diving, Water Baloon riding, Sea Bed Walks, Bunjee Jumping, Jet Skiing and many more that seems little risky but give thrill to the visitors.
- Buddhist Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend carries Buddhism related sites, stupas, relics and preaching are well traveled with the cities associated with it.
For Example– Mahaparinirvana Express has been launched by Indian Railway in which the train travels to multiple locations which reflects different life stages and events Mahatma Buddha had in these locations. Form his mother’s birth place, Lumbini, to the place he attained enlightenment i.e. Bodh Gaya.
- Wellness and Spa Tourism: The keeping of health and well being at very center of our travel experiences. Wellness tourism in very different from Medical tourism and comes under health tourism.
For example– A woman visits Kerala famous for its ayurvedic treatment of body, mind, and soul. She stays there for 3 months and take the treatments that helped her body to regain strength.
- Culinary tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend involves exploration of food as purpose of tourism alongside climate, accommodation and scenery.
For example– A Michelin star restaurant selling authentic sushi in Tokyo, Japan has been famous for its rare delicacy made by extreme care and ingredients. People started traveling to the destination for the sake of tasting the sushis in the particular restaurant carrying out food/ culinary tourism.
- Shopping Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend involves shopping and getting souvenirs and famous items from different destinations. China is leader in shopping tourism.
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- Indigenous Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend involves activities where indigenous people are involved as the essence of attraction.
For example– A local festival in Nagaland, India is famous for its indigenous festival known as Hornbill celebrated every 1st December by native people. There are activities carried out int he festivals that is astonishing reflecting the tribes’ culture.
- Industrial and mining Tourism: This Futuristic Tourism Trend depicts visitations to the different mines of the world that are popular for mining minerals, diamonds, and many more.
For example– Mining and Industrial areas famous for sightseeing like Salt mining in Bert Reichanhall, Central Europe.
