This document defines and provides examples of different types of tourists: VFR (visiting friends and relatives), leisure, adventure, business, health, cultural, and youth/backpacking. It also discusses factors to consider when creating a tourist profile, such as name, nationality, age, occupation, needs, length of stay, purpose of visit, and whether the tourist is local, domestic, or international. An example profile is provided for a 26-year-old American man visiting South Africa for 10 days to celebrate his birthday and go on adventures before returning home.

1. I AM A
TOURIST..
Which one am I??

2. TYPES OF TOURISTS
 VFR: visiting friends and relatives
 Leisure tourist
 Adventure tourist
 Business tourist
 Health tourist
 Cultural tourist
 Youth travel/Backpacking

3. What to look at when you do a tourist
profile
 Name
 Gender Nationality
 Nationality
 Age
 Occupation
 Needs
 Time of stay
 Purpose of visit
 Local/domestic/international

4.  Tourist who visit friends or family
 They want to keep in contact with
family
 These tourist usually visit because
there is a birthday, funeral or wedding
at
that time
VFR (visiting friends and
relatives)

5. Leisure tourist
 Travel to rest and break away from everyday
life
 example: tourist who go on boat cruises
 Travelling to a music concert

6. Adventure tourist
 Tourist who want an extreme/exciting and
spine trilling experience
 Participate in dangerous activities like rock
climbing, river rafting and skydiving

7. Business tourist
 Tourist who travel for business purposes.
 Example: travel to another city for a
conference
 MESE: Meetings, Exhibitions, Special Events

8. Health tourist
 Tourist who travel to visit holiday spa
 need special medical treatment that cannot be
found in own city
 Tourist come to SA for plastic surgery

9. Cultural tourist
 Tourist who want to experience different types
of culture
 Usually visit Heritage sites
 Go to visit places like art festivals
 Example: Aardklop, KKNK

10. Youth travel/Backpacking
 Tourist who have little baggage end a small
budget
 Students/group of young people going away
for the weekend
 Gap year traveler: take a gap from
studying, work and earn money, learn more
skills

11. CLASS ACTIVITY
 Set up a tourism profile for John
 Situation:
 John Brown from New York will be visiting South
Africa. He will be her e for 10 days and he is
coming here to celebrate his 26th birthday. He
wants to visit adventure destinations before he
goes home. He is a gym trainer, a vegetarian and
he wants to try out various South African dishes.
He will be staying in a backpackers hostile. He
only has his backpack and he does not have
enough money to eat at fancy restaurants. He left
his driving license at home.

12. Answer to tourist profile
 Name: James Brown
 Gender: Male
 Nationality: New Yorker
 Age: 26
 Occupation: Gym trainer
 Needs :looking for adventure activities
 Special needs: vegetarian, backpacker, busses
 Time of stay: from 15th to 25th of December
 Purpose of visit: to experience South Africa at
minimum cost
 local/ domestic/international:

13. HOMEWORK
 Look at the following types of
tourist educational, eco-tourist,
 Come up with definition and
examples of where they would be
traveling
 Complete tourist profile (handout)

14. Next week
Hand in homework
New content: types of
transport
What type of transport each
tourist prefers