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Place-based Tourism

"Place-based tourism" is an umbrella term that includes several tourism practices, such as cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. Others use phrases such as "alternative tourism" or "experiential tourism" to refer to many of the same approaches.

Most place-based practices can be lumped into one of three categories: either the cultural, natural, or built environment - people, land, and town.

To present "place" in its most complete sense, then, communities should take into account their cultural, natural, and built environments.

Learn more about this approach at Integrate the Story.

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Cultural Heritage Tourism ("cultural environment"): This category includes tourists who visit museums, archeological sites, Native American heritage centers, and other locations that showcase the local "story."

Ecotourism ("natural environment"): Here the attraction is the natural landscape, such as visiting a National Park, mountain trail, or bird refuge.

Preservation ("built environment"): Many communities use their historic streetscape as a tourism asset - think of Boston and Savannah.

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