Heritage Tourism is a collection of activities along with services for providing visitors with the unique experience of enjoying and understanding special interests related to a heritage. For keeping the heritage sites in good condition it is necessary to recognize and preserve the assets for the long term. When used in combination with other interests heritage tourism offers several opportunities.
Even though Cultural tourism is often used with the term Heritage tourism both are slightly different. Culture of a locale depend on several things like history beliefs and traditions whereas heritage is related to the surroundings, historic sites and archaeological sites.
Preserving the traditions, languages and other activities about people should also be preserved for making the heritage tourism keep the essence for a long term.
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