Religious tourism and pilgrimage management : an international perspective /

• Other Authors: Raj, Razaq, (Editor), Griffin, Kevin, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Pilgrims and pilgrimages.; Tourism > Religious aspects.; Tourism > Management.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Case studies.; Tourism > Case studies. > Religious aspects; Tourism > Case studies. > Management; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Case studies.; Management.; Motivation.; Pilgrimages.; Religion.; Religious tourism.
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This book aims to demonstrate to the reader the intrinsic details that have a crucial role to play within the religious tourism and pilgrimage management process. This 2nd edition lays a foundation for scholars, practitioners and students who do not study management, but who are concerned with the a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to sacred or secular journeys / Razaq Raj and Kevin Griffin
• Politics, policy and practice of religious tourism / Anna Trono
• Sacred sites and the tourist : sustaining tourism infrastructures for religious tourists and pilgrims : a UK perspective / Ian D. Rotherham
• The globalization of pilgrimage tourism? Some thoughts from Ireland / Kevin Griffin and Razaq Raj
• Religious tourism for religious tolerance / Yasin Bilim and Sevde Düzgüner
• Pilgrimage, diversity and terrorism / Tahir Rashid and Neil Robinson
• Motivations for religious tourism, pilgrimage, festivals, and events / Razaq Raj, Kevin Griffin and Ruth Blackwell
• Exploring pilgrimage and religious heritage tourism experiences / Nigel Bond
• Sacred pilgrimage and tourism as secular pilgrimage / Vitor Ambrósio
• Social network tools as guides to religious sites / Lluís Prats, Silvia Aulet and Dolors Vidal
• Stakeholders and co-creation in religious tourism and pilgrimage / Alan Clarke and Ágnes Raffay
• Case study 1: Pilgrimage experience and consumption of travel to the city of Makkah for the hajj ritual / Razaq Raj
• Case study 2: Religious tourism experiences in South East Asia / Jaeyeon Choe and Michael O' Regan
• Case study 3: Nordic pilgrimage to Israel : a case of Christian Zionism / Maria Leppäkari
• Case study 4: The consumption and management of religious tourism sites in Africa / Samson Olawale Fadare and Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson
• Case study 5: Ashura and it's commemoration in Ireland : a "proxy" pilgrimage experience / Kevin Griffin and Hadil Faris
• Case study 6: Revisiting religious tourism in northern Portugal / Carlos Fernandes, Jorge Coelho and Miguel Brázio
• Case study 7: From disaster to religiosity : Republica de Cromanón, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Geoffrey Skoll
• Case study 8: Pilgrimages toward south Lebanon : holy places relocating Lebanon as a part of the Holy Land / Nour Farra-Haddad
• Case study 9: The creation of the cults of SS Paul and Publius in early modern Malta / Vincent Zammit
• Case study 10: Takaful : to explore the market need for hajj travel insurance / Tahir Rashid.