Alternative tourism combines tourist products or individual tourist services, different from mass tourism by means of supply, organization and the human resources involved.
[citation needed] Other examples of different terms include "intelligent" or "motivated tourism."
Natural, social, and community value in which allow both host and guest to enjoy positive, worthwhile and shared experience.
Alternative tourism in rural areas and indigenous territories has been promoted in countries like Mexico as a local development strategy that can be integrated with environmental conservation.
Sources that state a number of different styles are [2] and [3] Since the term alternative is ambiguous, there are numerous critical remarks stating that the concept is only " (...) a fashionable idea among those who are dissatisfied with the nature of mass tourism (...)".