The proposed textbook is a series of lectures on the disciplines “International Tourism” and “Special Types of Tourism Activities”, serves as a theoretical basis for the study of special types of tourism, such as religious, health, environmental, skiing, event, extreme, cruise tourism. The textbook examines in detail various approaches to the classification of tourism activities, analyzes the reasons and prerequisites for the emergence of certain types of tourism, describes the centers and regions of special types of tourism, gives practical examples of the formation of a tourist product for special types of tourism. The manual is intended for university students studying in specialties 080502.65 – “Economics and management in a tourism and hotel industry”, 230800 – “Socio-cultural service and tourism”, employees of tourism industry enterprises.