Religious tourism and pilgrimage festivals management : an international perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI Pub.,
c2007.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032416.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2006032416-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Razaq Raj & Nigel D. Morpeth
- The globalization of pilgrimage tourism? / Kevin A. Griffin
- Motivations for religious tourism, pilgrimage, festivals and events / Ruth Blackwell
- The management and marketing of religious sites, pilgrimage and religious events / Jurica Pavicic, Nikisa Alfirevic & Vincent John Batarelo
- Sustaining tourism infrastructures for religious tourists and pilgrims within the UK / Ian D. Rotheram
- Sacred and tourism as secular pilgrimage / Vitor Ambrosio
- Religion, pilgrimage, mobility and immobility / Alexandra Arellano
- Religious tourism and cultural pilgrimage / Zhang Mu ... [et al.]
- Centring the visitor / 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 / Vitor Ambrosio & Margarida Pereira
- Case study 3 : ancient and modern pilgrimage / Nigel D. Morpeth
- Case study 4 : the symbolic representation of religion, culture and heritage and their implications on the tourism experience / Martin Scheer
- Case study 5 : the importance and the role of faith (religious) tourism in the alternative tourism resources of Turkey / Ahmed Aktas & Yakin Ekin
- Case study 6 : visiting sacred sites in India / Kiran A. Shinde
- Case study 7 : Islamic pilgrimage and the market need for travel insurance / Tahir Rashid
- Case study 8 : Fatima : the religious tourism altar / Maria I.R.B. de Pinho.