Identifying diving tourism as a main niche tourism source for Gozo

Abstract

Diving tourism in these last few years have made huge stides forward when it omes to attracting tourists to Gozo because of diving tourism. On this notion Gozo has started a journey to combine more tourism and diving together. Recently a lot of effort has been done to combine these two businesses together, to be used as a form of attracting more tourists towards Gozo. This can mean an alternative type of tourism which can be used by businesses as a means of financial benefit and on the other which can be a mean of relaxation for visitors both for those who come purely for diving and even for those to come as a holiday in Gozo and do diving toruism in one way or another. This study throws light on the current situation of diving tourism in Gozo, its infant stages and whether such a venture can be seen as becoming the main niche tourism sector for Gozo. The section of the literature review focuses on what is meant by diving tourism and this can be seen by seeing the different views of different authors. In the literature review a case study is also mentioned. In the methodolgy section one can find the ways of how the reseracher found the various sources and from where the reseracher also got all the information which is used in this study. In the analsysis part one can see the various point of views of different people which are involved in the diving tourism sector which gives a better view of the current issues and picture of the state of this sector.