Сочинение: Types of holiday

Сочинение: Types of holiday

Types of Holiday

Holiday is an extended period of recreation, especially spent away from home

or travelling. A break from work or a day of festivity or recreation when no

work is done is also called the same way.

This means that holiday is a kind of tourist activity that is not connected

with work or business. Therefore, to make out which types of tourist activity

refer to holiday one should exclude all kinds of business travelling and then

it’s quite possible to compose a list of types of holiday according to

different criteria.

Such criteria might be duration of holiday, its geography, tourists’

mobility, their age, transportation, seasons, value for money, etc.

But the main criterion is the aim of holiday. Different people take holidays

on various purposes. Some go hunting, others prefer to climb mountains. A lot

of people have holidays relative to sport activities, such as hiking,

cycling, horse-back riding, rowing and canoeing, as well as scuba-diving or

even bungee jumping. There are also such purposes as recreation, treatment

and medical care. In this case people can choose resort or a spa. Tourism for

recreation is very popular in our region. The local nature is perfectly

suitable not only for treatment but also for various kinds of adventure

holiday. Today a great attention is paid to ecological tourism and Krasnodar

territory is the very place to develop it in.

I think shop-tourism and business travelling cannot be added to the list of

types of holiday, for they are related to work.

No less important criterion in this classification is how a holiday can be

organized. It may be done with the help of some travel agencies, tour

operator companies, or one can organise his rest himself, that is, self-

catering type of holiday takes place here.

One of the tourist activities is studying. I’m not sure if it is a type of

holiday, but one should not forget that for some people studying is more

recreating and relaxing than for example hunting or climbing mountains.

Nowadays there are many kinds of work and each of them requires its own type

of holiday. So the number of types of holiday is steadily growing.