Top five popular types of tourism in 2021

Published on : Thursday, October 21, 2021

Tourism being a major contributor to the GDP of several countries, the respective governments are taking various procedures to recover the industry’s business from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SmitaraniTripathy, Influencer Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has listed the top five popular types of tourism in 2021:

Virtual Tourism
‘Virtual Tourism’ grabs the top spot as the most discussed tourism type among Twitter influencers and Redditors in 2021. Discussions around ‘Virtual Tourism’ revolved around how virtual tour has provided a new experience to the visitors through different technologies-enabled methods like 360-degree photo, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), a video tour, Google Arts.
Space Tourism

‘Space Tourism’ has come up as the next most discussed tourism type according to GlobalData’s Social Media Analytics Platform. The launch of two successful space flights – ‘Virgin Galactic’ by Richard Branson and ‘Blue Origin’ by Jeff Bezos in July and August, respectively has brought space tourism in limelight.

Adventure Tourism

According to influencers, ‘Adventure Travel’ can transform the world from one of monotony and dullness to one of excitement.

Food Tourism

‘Food Tourism’ is largely about beautiful food tourism destinations with reasonable prices like Vancouver and Nova Scotia in Canada and Bern in Switzerland.

Wine Tourism

According to influencers, initiatives are being taken by different countries to promote ‘Wine Tourism’, such as the Santorini event by Greek and the implementation of the ‘IterVitis Caucasus route’ by Azerbaijan.