Religious tourism and pilgrimage festivals management : an international perspective /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Tourism > Religious aspects.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages.; Tourism > Management.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Festivals.; Management.; Pilgrimages.; Religion.; Religious tourism.; Electronic books.
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Describing practical applications, models and case studies, this book provides an insight into the management of religious tourism, covering both ancient sacred sites and emerging destinations. It examines the relationships between religion and tourism and explores the pressures on sacred spaces to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Razaq Raj and Nigel D. Morpeth
• The globalization of pilgrimage tourism? some thoughts from Ireland / Kevin A. Griffin
• Motivations for religious tourism, pilgrimage, festivals and events / Ruth Blackwell
• The management and marketing of religious sites, pilgrimage and religious events : challenges for Roman Catholic pilgrimages in Croatia / Jurica Pavicic, Nikisa Alfirevic and Vincent John Batarelo
• Sustaining tourism infrastructures for religious tourists and pilgrims within the UK / Ian D. Rotheram
• Sacred pilgrimage and tourism as secular pilgrimage / Vitor Ambrósio
• Religion, pilgrimage, mobility and immobility / Alexandra Arellano
• Religious tourism and cultural pilgrimage : a Chinese perspective / Zhang Mu, Huang Li, Wang Jian-hong, Liu Ji, Yan-geng and Lai Xiting
• Centring the visitor : promoting a sense of spirituality in the Caribbean / Jacqueline Mulligan
• Case study 1 : the Festival of Sacrifice and travellers to the City of Heaven (Makkah) / Razaq Raj
• Case study 2 : Christian/Catholic pilgrimage : studies and analyses / Vitor Ambrósio and Margarida Pereira
• Case study 3 : ancient and modern pilgrimage : El Camino Frances / Nigel D. Morpeth
• Case study 4 : the symbolic representation of religion, culture and heritage and their implications on the tourism experience. the example of the 'Ciudad de Cultura' in Santiago de Compostela / Martin Scheer
• Case study 5 : the importance and the role of faith (religious) tourism in the alternative tourism resources of Turkey / Ahmed Aktas and Yakin Ekin
• Case study 6 : visiting sacred sites in India : religious tourism or pilgrimage? / Kiran A. Shinde
• Case study 7 : Islamic pilgrimage and the market need for travel insurance / Tahir Rashid
• Case study 8 : Fátima : the religious tourism altar / Maria I.R.B. de Pinho and Isabel M.R.T. de Pinho.