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The purpose of this study is to define the concept of tourism convergence, to present the type and case of tourism convergence, to reference the direction of tourism convergence development. Therefore this study investigated about medical tourism, food tourism, films tourism, sports tourism and farming/fishing tourism. For achieving the purpose of this studies, a literature research, survey, experience of researcher and analysis of case study were conducted as study methods. The results of the practical analysis can be summarized as follows.
First, Tourism convergence is create that can be produce for new values with other industry. Second, Tourism convergence has three types that is explain farming, manufacturing and service with tourism. Third, as this study is a exploration level about tourism convergence, tourism convergence is something creates value through mix the different industry with tourism. Tourism convergence is a paradigm for customer needs tourism industry in this time. Tourism convergence is possible to combine with medicine, food, films, farming and fishing village fields. On the other hand, this study have a limitation in possibility of subjectivity based on literature research, survey, and a few analysis of case studies, problem of generalization for case studies of tourism convergence.