The area of tourism our group had focused on was cultural tourism. Cultural tourism is defined as ” A subset of tourism that concerns a country or regions culture, specifically the lifestyles of the individuals in those geographical areas, their history, their art, architecture, religions or religion, and other elements that aid their way of life”. The five significant activities when paying a visit to the Brooklyn Bridge park is none other than looking at the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges! This is the best and the first activity you should do when you are experiencing cultural tourism. Offering you the architectural and historical information about Brooklyn New York. After looking at the bridges, you and your sweetheart can take your “lock of love” and write your initials on it ! Culturally, this is a practice that New Yorkers and tourists alike do when visiting the park . Its considered a part of a major historical structure and being something  that will symbolically last for lifetimes to come, like your love for one another. You  also can walk around and people watch. Its free and a heavily cultural activity that you can engage in by watching all of the wedding , Quinceanera and engagement photos that take place in and around the park. It lets you get exposed to the many traditions and cultures New Yorkers  has to offer. Basque in some more architectural history by looking at the New York skyline , structures that are so magnificent that even a person from Brooklyn has their breath taken away from it. The final thing you can do when you are on your cultural tourism adventure is visit Jane’s carousel ! Its a work of art and something that will bring young and old together . Having a better look at the waterfront as well as riding on a carousel that will certainly be apart of Brooklyn’s history.

Upon visiting the Brookyln bridge park and basquing in its culturally diverse surroundings, I have learned that my section of cultural tourism is an entity that will always be developing and growing. Whether it is the construction of waterfront condominiums, or traveling across the timeless Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, It is the people who make this part of Brookyln what it is with  their diversity and contemporary way of life that will always be special to our city’s culture . Even with something simplistic as using the bridges as a way to explore new horizons or going to Janes caurosel with old friends and new friends alike , we make this part of Brooklyn shape who we are and what our way of life. The concept of cultural tourism definitely fits this line of thinking because it is the various forms of art, architecture and cultural diversity that make the people of Brookyln unique .