The Importance Of Slow Tourism

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Slow way of doing things or slow movement is currently found in so many different parts of our day to day life and you can locate or determine that slow is being linked to all phenomenon, industries and sectors.
Among these (sectors) is the tourism sector. Slow tourism is a kind of conceptual framework which gives different options to travelling by car and also air (plane travel). People go to places more slowly overland, have a long stay and less travel, Dickenson, et al. (2010).
Practicing slow tourism and travel is weighed against the dominant trend of rapid travel, equally as a means of getting from one destination to another and a method or means of consumption when there. Dickenson, et al. (2010)
Slow travelling enhance demand and supply
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There should be a long term logic way of doing things and taking actions.
Respect should be given to environmental conservation, history, fruitful interactions should be established between travellers and local inhabitants or people, adopted processes must be sustainable. Dickenson and Lumsden (2010),
Slow tourism contrasts itself, directly, against the stereotypical package tour in which tourists see seven cities in six days and being taken back home exhausted and overwhelmed by hyper consumption of sites (places), or the more recent city-break phenomenon, where low cost airlines make it possible to jet abroad for a lengthy, activity filled weekend
Slow tourism puts together the slowness of pace, the journey itself and the establishment connections with local cultures. Travelling is to stimulate the sense rather than constitutes the forerunner to the start the real holidays. At the destination, the focus of slow tourism is on serenity, relaxation and finding meaning by leisurely taking in all that the senses have to give, rather than collecting more touristic experiences. (Honoré (2004), (Lumsden and McGrath
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They realize that while so many option conceptions of slow tourism exist, there is agreement on three (3) major points; Slowness, travel experience and concern for the environment. Slowness comprises pace and the supposed opposition to the alternative of speed associated with everyday life (2011, 271).
There are two important factors that make up the slow tourism experience; firstly, the quality of the experience itself, which advocates claim which is directly associated to the pace in which it is done. Secondly is the impact of the tourist experience. Slow tourism is environmentally cognizant and concerned with the wellbeing of hosts and the host community.
Slow tourism also one way or the other takes into consideration the mode of travel (mode of transportation). It encourages slow means of travel from one destination to another. To others there should be collectiveness, embarking by public or group transport to be able to share their experiences about the journey. Also slow means of travel (slow travel) is being motivated by certain various impact concerns. Dickenson, et al. (2010)
Slow tourism experience (supply, demand) can be reviewed and assessed, to be considered as such should satisfy the following

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