: Horticulture Tourism

Horticulture Tourism

Horticulture tourism can be defined as travel primarily motivated by horticultural attractions such as botanical gardens, parks, flower shows, community gardens, organic farms, horticultural plantations, organic food shows, natural landscapes and/or gardening and garden related activities. It can be more broadly defined to include travel where gardens and natural landscapes are a critical component of the overall experience but not the primary motivator.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. The casual admirers of beauty will likely travel to a destination to be outdoors, explore new places, and want to be around beautiful things. For them it seems that horticultural attractions may be at least an integral part of the tourist experience.

For Younger people with stressful corporate jobs horticulture tourism is an opportunity to get back to nature.
Why should you try horticulture tourism?

The major objectives of horticulture tourism are as below:

Be outdoors with nature
Be around beautiful things
Relax and escape the pressures of everyday life
Stay active and get exercise
Spend time with your families
Spend time in meditation

Types of Horticultural Attractions

Botanical gardens; community gardens and natural warefalls
Speciality gardens such as rose gardens, tulip gardens, rock gardens, mughal gardens etc
Niche retail outlets
Seeds, herbs and herbal gardening projects
Organic farms and organic foods
Garden accessories and music fountains
Flower shows or festivals
Gardens with flowering plants and ornamental shrubs
Wine gardens
Aboriginal gardens and tourism sites
Food parks
Horticultural plantations such as spice plantations; rubber plantations; fruit orchards etc

Types of Horticultural Tours

Food and wine tours
Organic tours
Cultural and ethnic tours
Art gallery and studio tours
Ecotourism
Historical garden and landscape tours
Ayurvedic(herbal) medical tours