This document defines and provides examples of different types of tourists: VFR (visiting friends and relatives), leisure, adventure, business, health, cultural, and youth/backpacking. It also discusses factors to consider when creating a tourist profile, such as name, nationality, age, occupation, needs, length of stay, purpose of visit, and whether the tourist is local, domestic, or international. An example profile is provided for a 26-year-old American man visiting South Africa for 10 days to celebrate his birthday and go on adventures before returning home.
2. TYPES OF TOURISTS
VFR: visiting friends and relatives
Leisure tourist
Adventure tourist
Business tourist
Health tourist
Cultural tourist
Youth travel/Backpacking
3. What to look at when you do a tourist
profile
Name
Gender Nationality
Nationality
Age
Occupation
Needs
Time of stay
Purpose of visit
Local/domestic/international
4. Tourist who visit friends or family
They want to keep in contact with
family
These tourist usually visit because
there is a birthday, funeral or wedding
at
that time
VFR (visiting friends and
relatives)
5. Leisure tourist
Travel to rest and break away from everyday
life
example: tourist who go on boat cruises
Travelling to a music concert
6. Adventure tourist
Tourist who want an extreme/exciting and
spine trilling experience
Participate in dangerous activities like rock
climbing, river rafting and skydiving
7. Business tourist
Tourist who travel for business purposes.
Example: travel to another city for a
conference
MESE: Meetings, Exhibitions, Special Events
8. Health tourist
Tourist who travel to visit holiday spa
need special medical treatment that cannot be
found in own city
Tourist come to SA for plastic surgery
9. Cultural tourist
Tourist who want to experience different types
of culture
Usually visit Heritage sites
Go to visit places like art festivals
Example: Aardklop, KKNK
10. Youth travel/Backpacking
Tourist who have little baggage end a small
budget
Students/group of young people going away
for the weekend
Gap year traveler: take a gap from
studying, work and earn money, learn more
skills
11. CLASS ACTIVITY
Set up a tourism profile for John
Situation:
John Brown from New York will be visiting South
Africa. He will be her e for 10 days and he is
coming here to celebrate his 26th birthday. He
wants to visit adventure destinations before he
goes home. He is a gym trainer, a vegetarian and
he wants to try out various South African dishes.
He will be staying in a backpackers hostile. He
only has his backpack and he does not have
enough money to eat at fancy restaurants. He left
his driving license at home.
12. Answer to tourist profile
Name: James Brown
Gender: Male
Nationality: New Yorker
Age: 26
Occupation: Gym trainer
Needs :looking for adventure activities
Special needs: vegetarian, backpacker, busses
Time of stay: from 15th to 25th of December
Purpose of visit: to experience South Africa at
minimum cost
local/ domestic/international:
13. HOMEWORK
Look at the following types of
tourist educational, eco-tourist,
Come up with definition and
examples of where they would be
traveling
Complete tourist profile (handout)
14. Next week
Hand in homework
New content: types of
transport
What type of transport each
tourist prefers