Motivational Factors for Travel Traveling is the human instinct. That is why people have been travelling time and again since their nomadic life to the present time. Motivation is dependent on a tourist’s way of living which is established by the tourist’s cultural tradition. It is rare to find to find tourists select a destination that practices the same culture as his/her own. Tourism is basically pleasure or holiday travel. People like to spend their personal disposable income in leisure activities. It has been mentioned in some literature the two main and distinct motivations that create desire in people to travel. They are wonder lust and sun lust. 2. Wonder lust: Wonder lust describe the desire to exchange the known for the unknown, to discover new places, people and cultures. The strong force to travel of this category is curiosity. b. Sun lust: Sun lust denotes the kind of travel to enjoy more facilities or attractions not present in one’s own country. Sun lust lovers generally prefer adventure activities. Scanned with CamScannerR.W Macintosh has mentioned four basic travel motivators as follows: 1. Physical motivators: This travel is made for physical relaxation and rest, sports and special medical treatment or health care etc. All of these motives are connected with their bodily health and wellbeing. 2. Cultural motivators: Increasing numbers of people are visiting different land having cultural importance and curiosity have been major reasons for people to travel. Man is always curious to learn about foreign lands, people and their culture. 3. Interpersonal motivators: Under this, people travel with the purpose of meeting relatives or friends, or to escape from one’s family workmates or neighbors for some time or to meet new people and make new friends or simply to escape from the monotonous everyday life. 4, Status and prestige motivators: Under this, travel is made for personal development, upgrading social status, earning respect and honor etc. Above mention four types of motivators can further be sub divided into the following sub headings: a. Pleasure: People go out to travel for pleasure, getting free from regular work of daily life, to pass time cheerfully, to enjoy and pass their time with romantic experience. Scanned with CamScannerb. Relaxation, rest and recreation: Industrialization and urbanization have created great pressures on modern living. Therefore, people go to travel to get away from crowded city life, polluted environment, mental and physical tension and enjoy fresh environment of peaceful places even for some time. c. Health: Many people travel for health purpose. The benefits gained from fresh air and sunshine has long been recognized. The development of ‘Health resort’, for health purpose in recent days. d. Participation in sports: There has been an increasing pai a wide variety of sporting activities such as mountaineering, hiking, trekking, sailing, fishing etc. Some People travel to play games and many of them travel to watch games. e. Curiosity and culture: These are connected with the people’s desire to travel in order to learn about other countries and their people and their cultural heritage, art, cultural aspects etc. f. Ethnic and family: Many people travel with purpose of meeting their fami new friendship. 8. Spiritual and religious: Visiting religious places has been one of the ea iest motives for travel number of people have been making pilgrimages to religious places or holy places. : h, Status and prestige: People travel to achieve social respect, honor and Prestige, Professional or business: People engaged in different professions travel differen the purpose of business, or take part in international meeting, conventions, conferen ‘Spas’, have shown the growing importance of travel 'Y member’s friends and seeking A large it foreign countries with ces and seminars, Scanned with CamScannerTypes of Tourism Tourism is the most important parts of economic activities. In the history of tourism development different features and mode appeared with the motive of travelling activities. Some important types of tourism can be classified as follows: a. Mass tourism: Mass tourism is group travel to destination for purpose of leisure. It is the most popular form of tourism as it is often the cheapest way to holiday and often sold as a package tour. b. Adventure tourism: Adventure tourism is the type of tourism involving exploration or travel with perceived risk and potentially requiring specialized skills and physical exertion. There are three types of Adventure tourism, land base, water base and air base. c. Eco-tourism: Eco-tourism is responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people. d. Sustainable tourism: Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make - only positive impaction the environment, society and economy. e. Recreational tourism: Recreational tourism is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. They need to do something for recreation which is an essential element of human biology and psychology. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement or pleasure and are considered to be fun. f. Health/Medical tourism: Medical tourism is the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country. Traditionally people would travel from less developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment was unavailable in their own communities. 8. Convention tourism: A conference is the sense of meeting is a gathering of individuals who meet sis an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engaged in some common interest. Convention tourism 's the Scanned with CamScannertourism activities operated by the representatives of different nations and society. Different big hotels are used for this purpose. h. Village and urban tourism: Village tourism is the tourism activities in which village resources are fully utilized for the maximum satisfaction of their customers. Urban tourism is concerned with the city area. Big hotels and restaurants are developed to cater to the needs of luxury tourist. i, Ethnic tourism: This type of tourism is concerned with the selling and organizing tours to visit indigenous society. Tour operating organization takes their customers to visit the native people, their homes, and villages to understand their customs and traditions. j. Cultural tourism: It is related to the tours to the culturally rich sites. The main objective of this tourism is to provide the knowledge of the culture of the region. k. Historical tourism: Historical tourism is the tourism activities in which tourist can get different information and knowledge visiting historically importance places. In this tourism people generally visit museums and palaces. I. Domestic and International tourism: Domestic tourism focuses on the tourism within the country. It does not require visa formalities, and does not involve border formalities. It generates local currency and no foreign income. On the other hand, international tourism is concerned with foreign national and it generates foreign currency, which is the need of developing countries. It involves visa rules, border formalities and is more complicated than the domestic tourism. Scanned with CamScanner