Religioni popolari e turismo religioso

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry, 2019

Tourism is an economic activity capable of promoting the development of regions, creating wealth and contributing to the preservation of heritage. Thus, the tourism sector in general, and in particular, the new typologies of tourism that take advantage of cultural resources, such as religious tourism, have in recent years become the focus of attention by economic, political and scientific agents. Religious tourism started the moment man began to move due to a question of belief, that is to say, with a religious manifestation, the pilgrimage, being a pilgrim a tourist with religious motivation. Currently, according to UNWTO estimates, between 300 and 330 million tourists visit the main religious sites every year. Taking into account the increasing interest in the subject of religious tourism and pilgrimage, a review of the academic literature on this type of tourism is carried out in this chapter by means of a descriptive bibliometric study of articles, books and of book chapters inc...

Amfiteatru Economic

Religious tourism, sometimes called spiritual tourism, has gained an increasing role throughout the world. Due to its initial component, pilgrimage, it is often considered the oldest form of tourism, dating thousands of years back. Travels to the ancient holy places didn't have today's logistical support, but they had the same human motivation: faith. This faith, sometimes extreme, was the basis for shaping religions. Religions' variety and complexity can be justified through human typology, the environment in which their adepts live, culture, and last but not least, society's stage of development. The present paper wishes to investigate aspects related to religious tourism, identify some features it must react to, and highlight its determinants as well. Information is based on an up-to-date documentation, difficult to obtain in a field which hasn't been thoroughly investigated. The results refer to some original aspects, such as identifying the stakeholders of r...

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2017

This discussion paper explores the topic of religious tourism and pilgrimage, examining it from a tourism industry perspective, reflecting on definitions, motivations and scale of the ‘product’ as reported at a global level. Mindful of the fact that international records of religious tourism are scant to say the least, this is an attempt to bring together definitions, classifications and data which come from a variety of sources. The paper draws together understandings from different religious traditions, presenting data and motivations on a variety of pilgrimage types. As the paper demonstrates, this ‘niche’ product is indeed enormous, and if industry projections are correct, is set to become an even more important element of international travel and tourism.

2011

The aim of this article is to show how religious tourism, just like cultural tourism, is a form of travel and a further expression of the commercialisation of culture, or to be more precise, the commercialisation of religion and popular devotion. Heritage, in images, sanctuaries, beliefs and devotions, is related with culture, identity, religious feeling and faith, but also with the consumption of a tourism product. On the basis of this hypothesis, the cases of Montserrat, the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) and Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Granada share the common nexus of complementarization between religious heritage and tourism. The examples given are a form of cultural expression that has been established as a space for tourist visits-consumption with a religious and cultural meaning. The article is divided into four sections. The first focuses on the state of the question and the definition of terms. The second notes the volume of religious tourism and the difficulties wi...

This paper proposes scanned contexts where the doublet religious tourism- pilgrimage occurs. In this respect, the structure of the article includes a series of examples selected from the literature, grouped by the nature of the approach of the two terms, namely the economic, geographic, sociological and theological history. The analysis shows that there is a diversity of meanings for the two terms, ranging from minimal distinction, even synonymy between the two, in terms of economic or geographical studies, and up to the maximum accuracy of theological perspective. The findings lead to the need and importance of knowledge and acceptance meanings they acquire two terms depending on the context in which they are used.

Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2012

International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 2012

Al-Fikr Al-Muhasabī, 2018

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1999