The study of the relation between religious, rural tourism types with cultural and local tourism

Cultural tourism is always among the main kinds of tourism in Iran and totally regarded in developmental countries. However, there is not any kind of comprehensive points among the experts relating to the types of tourism. In exact view, in the different sources there is difference of opinions in relation to inclusion of ecological, cultural and rural tourism as different kinds of cultural tourism which the analytical present paper by using the strategy of combined research of available literature tries to present a kind of comprehensive concept for this issue with the emphasis in South Khorasan province. Therefore, the main question of the writers of this paper is to consider that whether the ecological, religious and rural tourism can be regarded as different kinds of subcategories of cultural tourism. The results indicates that from the view point of the tourists activities’ nature in the destination place, the religious and rural tourism in total and if the ecological tourism by direct relation (encountering the native people) or indirect relation (from the reports of the life of local people) inside their responsible expedition probe the recognition and researching about the local people’s culture, they can be regarded as a kind of cultural tourism.