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Gourmet gastronomic tourism
Gastronomic tourism is a trip to various places of the planet to get acquainted with local culinary traditions and features of national or regional cuisine. The main goal of vacationers who choose gastronomic tourism is to taste unique products and dishes that are unique to the area.
For true gourmets, such trips are not a way to fill the stomach with all kinds of delicacies and exotic dishes. First of all, gastronomic tourism is a means of understanding the mentality, centuries-old traditions and national spirit of peoples through the culture of cooking and eating food. Thus, gastronomic tourism is more than a regular sightseeing trip, as it requires a careful approach to the selection of local food. The main highlight of the gastrotour is the tasting of those dishes that are not found anywhere else in the world. Continue reading
Mountain tourism
Mountain tourism is a fairly extensive category of outdoor activities. It includes trips to highlands, rock climbing, caving, rafting on mountain rivers, geological explorations, expeditions to familiarize yourself with the flora and fauna. According to the official definition of the World Tourism Organization, mountain tourism is the overcoming of routes running at an altitude of at least 3 thousand meters above sea level. In accordance with this interpretation, in Ukraine there are no mountains of such height that travel on them could be qualified as mountain tourism. For example, the highest point of the Carpathians, Mount Goverla, has a height of 2600 m, and the most significant peak of the Crimea, Mount Roman-Kosh, is located at an altitude of 1545 m.
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About the varieties, motives and benefits of travel
According to the Dictionary of the Russian Language of Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov, travel is a trip or walking on foot to distant countries, places.
Everything seems to be clear, but immediately the question arises of what can be considered “distant countries and localities”. The concept of “distant” is always relative. For one person, distant terrain begins one kilometer from home, for another five hundred. For a child, it can start in a neighboring yard.
It turns out that just “range” is not enough to determine the journey. The problem disappears by itself if the concept of “distant terrain” is supplemented with such characteristics as uncharted, unstudied. Going to new places unknown to him, a person creates a travel situation. Continue reading
