ONE THING THAT MAKES TOURISM SO PECULIAR IS ITS MULTIFACETED NATURE.
Tourism cuts across virtually every field of study. Many tourism practitioners have reduced tourism to cultural or nature alone, which in itself causes degradation to the tourism industry.
We have voluminous categories of tourism; surprisingly, few of those are often regarded as what tourism is, while the other wide range of activities are seen as just normal activities without seeing the tourism factor in them.
Medical Tourism as a case: recently, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Nigeria performed a robotic surgery remotely. Just like this year's World Tourism Day theme that says "Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence...", we just have one right before our nose, but we are not seeing it because we have counted it out of the category.
That is just to make a case.
There are others that have nothing to do with nature and culture. I understand we easily connect with nature, culture, and tradition, but we must not stereotype or become too extreme to crown one over the other.
Tourism practitioners should be aware of and promote every category of Tourism practice that we have.
Which other category of tourism are you aware of, aside from the natural, cultural, and traditional heritages?