The Importance Of Cultural Tourism

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Cultural Tourism; involves going to visit cultural attractions and events by culturally motivated citizens and tourists. Here are some different examples of why people do cultural tourism and why it motivates more people to travel. Valorizing and preserving heritage is a very big reason people do cultural travel because they want to see attractions how they use to be and don’t want to see them destroyed so preserving them makes people more motivated to experience the attractions they are seeing. Economic development and employment this is a great reason to see cultural tourism because history majors or anyone really want to experience the full effect of the historical site. Strengthening and/or diversifying tourism is another reason to do cultural travel because land marks in any country is a huge deal for anyone who has been there or from there because preserving and strengthening makes sales go up higher and helps the economy.
Our first hot spot tour is and has been a hot cultural center for many years. Our tour is in Sicily, Italy and known as Palermo Revealed. It takes you through the architecture, archeological remains, and art of Palermo while supporting the culture that brought about the current city. The trip is six days long in the city of Palermo, all nights are spent in the Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa which is a centrally located four star accommodation. The tour costs 3240.14 CAD and includes everything except one of the dinners and air fare to London. Note that it is a walking tour. The traveler will be moving about the city on day two walking through old centers, and visiting galleries and then dining in a private palace. The tour runs through to coastal towns and Greek ruins/temples on the various other days while expe...

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.... Every time you travel you need all these things to be able to most of the things you want to do which gives the country’s more economic growth so the country can still help their citizens. Local resorts and hotels make a great impact in cultural tourism because they can hire more employees to work for them with the more tourism that they will be getting in the future and will increase revenue again.
Cultural Tourism is a very important of the tourism industry. Let’s all face it; life would be boring if we were all the same. Cultural tourism brings about a knowledge and practice in unity and understanding of other inhabitants around the world. As well it allows the discovery of certain other niche targets such as culinary and spiritual tourism. It also allows individuals to step out of comfort zones and have new experiences that they otherwise wouldn’t know about.

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