San Francisco is a perfect destination to do urban tourism for leisure and business tourists with the warm weather during the summers cooled by the ocean and bay breezes. They can visit historical landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Coit Tower. Lots of public transportation options around the city and the Bay Area with MUNI buses, light rail, & cable cars, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system though out the San Francisco Bay Area, Amtrak route though Oakland with bus connections in San Francisco, and CalTrain commuter train connecting San Francisco to the Silicon Valley. Learn something new at museums such as the Exploratorium science museum, California Academy of Sciences, the Walt Disney Family Museum, de Young Museum, and more. For business travelers, San Francisco is home to many business and technology companies such as Uber, Wells Fargo Bank, Salesforce, Twitter, Pintrest, and more with some of their out of area employees come to San Francisco during the week to do business with their companies, and they need to place to eat, sleep, get transportation to work and home. San Francisco is a popular urban tourism and business destination with all the tourist destinations, transportation options, business to keep tourists & business travelers busy and moving to make a huge leisure and business tourism destination that it is today.
Urban Tourism is according to the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization “a type of tourism activity which takes place in an urban space with its inherent attributes characterized by non-agricultural based economy such as administration, manufacturing, trade and services and by being nodal points of transport. Urban/city destinations offer a broad and heterogeneous range of cultural, architectural, technological, social and natural experiences and products for leisure and business”. This means that urban tourism has a lot of tourism that happens in a dense urban area such as San Francisco that has a lot of office, commercial, and residential in a dense area that also has destinations that would interest tourists and locals to visit such as learning the infamous history of Alcatraz, art from the Palace of Fine Arts, Science from the Exploritum museum, seeing the architecture of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Victorian houses, and seeing the lush greenery of the Presidio and Golden Gate Park. All of these experiences are packed in a dense area of San Francisco that is considered urban tourism.
This upcoming series of posts will be about planning your urban tourism trip to San Francisco from planning which places to go, how to get to San Francisco, where to eat and sleep, and more. This will be an experimental series as this is my first time writing continually on my blog about one place with many parts on the whole travel process, however, I love learning about the travel process and explore what kind of options there are when traveling.
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