It is known that bouillabaisse was originally a stew for poor sailors: everything that could not be sold was poured into the cauldron, and then they ate the resulting mess for several days with a bite of bread. It is also known that the famous English stone cheese was made for sailors in a special way - so that even rats and worms would disdain them. A similar story with tourism: today's man is attracted by what his ancestors fled from for centuries.
New tourist formats are being formed in the place of unhealed gestalts of the past, and now a city dweller strives to the countryside, a resident of a prosperous suburb - to yesterday's rotting urbanization, and together they are looking for something completely unimaginable. Let's give a brief overview of the popular direction of the modern travel industry.
Village tourism
Back to the roots. Give up the alarm - the rooster is at your disposal. Throw away the capsules for the coffee machine, there is still no electricity, but a half-milked cow is waiting in the barn. From the pros: instead of tasteless rubber, vegetables from the supermarket are real, straight from the garden. Some organizations conducting such tours are guided by agritourism: in addition to cockroaches on the lintel and milk with foam, you will also work on the plantation like a black man.
However, people who are not accustomed to the hardships of rural life, but even from walking around the city on foot or in public transport, like such artificial problems. Plus, you will contribute to keeping the agricultural industry afloat.
Jailo tourism
From one of the Central Asian languages, jailo is a mountain valley suitable for grazing cattle. Tourists in this direction prefer the wild nooks and crannies of Mother Earth: from the mountains and steppes of Asia, the woodlands of the Urals and Siberia, Canada and Alaska, to the jungles of the Amazon and protected steppes, the plains of Africa, in order to cast aside the good of European civilization.
You can start right from Central Asia - the Kyrgyz and Tajiks offer a large number of interesting routes (just don't climb the mountains without proper preparation, it will be bad). It is best to use the services of local guides - these kind and hospitable people will vividly show everything that is worth looking at, and then they will also invite you to visit. Do not refuse - they live here modestly, but for dear guests they will go to great lengths and put on the tables everything that they are rich in.
Ethnic tourism stands on the very edge of jailo: madness such as spending the night in a shepherd's yurt or reed hut in the middle of a forest teeming with poisonous creatures, adopting the traditions and customs of the indigenous population.
Cinema tourism
Cinema tourism is a popular trend in recent years: its apologists strive to become like the characters of their favorite film. Traveling in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, you will not become Livanovs, but it will be at least interesting. And the Chevrolet Impala - depending on the color - will send you either in the footsteps of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or the route of Sam and Dean Winchesters.
The highest delight for these guys is to get into the scenery, or even to the shooting of the film. The New Zealand hills will open the way to Middle-earth, and the Tunisian deserts to the alien landscapes of the Star Wars saga.
Festival tourism
Rest for music lovers and those who miss the friendship festivals in the USSR. In European countries, you can see three or four festivals in one vacation. Events usually last two to three days and have time to build up campgrounds and motorhome parks. " Glastonbury" (June), " Primavera" (May-June) and the good old "Invasion" will provide you with a positive charge for the year ahead - until the next such festival opens.
Gastronomic tourism
Gastronomic tourism is trendy, cool and tasty. It's no use wandering around ethnic restaurants, because what you get to taste in this place won't even be half as delicious as authentic food. Khinkali should be eaten not in khinkali, but in Georgia, and pizza - in Italy, and not in some Uncle Jones.
If you want cheeses, northern Italy and France are at your service, where Normandy, Champagne, Brie and Burgundy share the glory of the cheese provinces. In the latter case, it is better to combine cheese tasting with an excursion into local winemaking.
Ecotourism
Ecological tourism is for Greta Thunberg and her flock. In order to reduce the carbon footprint, it is proposed to relax in huts in the middle of nature reserves, contemplating but not interfering with natural processes. There are a number of communities of such tourists that advocate for an environmentally friendly vacation.
Caravanning (yes, we know how clumsy this word is)
The Caravan is a motorhome on wheels, the heir of vans from the era of the American pioneers and the settlement of the Wild West. The trend became popular in the 30s of the last century, when people wandered around the country in search of a better life, carrying folding furniture and a few belongings in trailers or trucks. Over time, a trailer appeared - obviously, when a person got tired of unloading and collecting property and furnishings in a new place.
In the United States and Europe, there are many specialized sites for this kind of housing, in other places parking is strictly prohibited and is fraught with a huge fine.
Spiritual tourism
Pilgrimage to holy places or asceticism, a journey for someone who wants to find harmony with the inner world. It is not so important what the purpose of your trip is - the shrines of India, Indonesia or Thailand, the holy icons of ancient Russia or Santiago de Compostela. What matters is the chance that the steps along the way will be taken in the right direction and lead you to God.
Industrial
Few people in childhood did not have to rummage through the ruins of burned down houses or long-term construction? The urbex format (from urban exploration), a type of tourism based on the study of the remains of urban civilizations, is called upon to revive in your soul a sense of awe-inspiring fear. These are diggers, roofers, various stalkers who penetrate behind, under and above fences where it is categorically not recommended to penetrate.
In Russia, walks along the underground canals of Moscow, the ghost town of Kadykchan in Magadan, or abandoned villages and concentration camps along the proposed route of the Northern Latitudinal Passage, the second Trans-Siberian highway in the Arctic, are popular. The iconic place for this destination in the United States is Detroit, as well as the Pennsylvanian town of Centralia, where a fire has been raging underground for more than half a century.
Dark travel
Dark, black or dark - it doesn't matter. The meaning of the track is about places associated with carrion, destruction, mystical and tragic events. The basement, where the maniac plastat to pieces of his victims, places of former battles and walks in cemeteries - the idea of ideal rest for the darkers is somewhat different from the traditional ones.
Among the cult objects of the carrion fans are the former extermination camp at Auschwitz 60 km from Krakow, the French ghost town of Oradour-sur-Glane, burned down during the Second World War, the Choeng Ek massacre sites and other Killing Fields in the former Kampuchea. Excursions to Alcatraz prison, where Al Capone was imprisoned, are popular in the United States. And in Romania, "dark tourists" roam the ruins of the Ponyri fortress: historians consider this place, not Bran, to be Dracula's real castle.
