Experimental travel


Experimental tourism is a novel approach to tourism in which visitors do not visit the ordinary tourist attractions, but allow whim to guide them. It is an alternative form of tourism in which destinations are chosen not on their standard touristic merit but on the basis of an idea or experiment. It often involves elements of humor, serendipity, and chance.
There are a number of approaches to experimental tourism:
Other ideas do not have particular names:
The concept of experimental travel was developed by writer Joel Henry, the French director of the Laboratory of Experimental Tourism.
In 2005, Lonely Planet published The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, which formalised and developed many of Henry's ideas.