Religious tourism and pilgrimage festivals management
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: edited by Razaq Raj and Nigel D. Morpeth
Contributors: Raj, Razaq; Morpeth, Nigel D
Publisher: CABI Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781845932251
Subjects: Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Tourism -- Religious aspects; Tourism -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Razaq Raj & Nigel D. Morpeth; title: The globalization of pilgrimage tourism? / Kevin A. Griffin; title: Motivations for religious tourism, pilgrimage, festivals and events / Ruth Blackwell; title: The management and marketing of religious sites, pilgrimage and religious events / Jurica Pavicic, Nikisa Alfirevic & Vincent John Batarelo; title: Sustaining tourism infrastructures for religious tourists and pilgrims within the UK / Ian D. Rotheram; title: Sacred and tourism as secular pilgrimage / Vitor Ambrósio; title: Religion, pilgrimage, mobility and immobility / Alexandra Arellano; title: Religious tourism and cultural pilgrimage / Zhang Mu ... [et al.]; title: Centring the visitor / Jacqueline Mulligan; title: Case study 1: the Festival of Sacrifice and travellers to the City of Heaven (Makkah) / Razaq Raj; title: Case study 2 : Christian/Catholic pilgrimage / Vitor Ambrósio & Margarida Pereira; title: Case study 3 : ancient and modern pilgrimage / Nigel D. Morpeth; title: Case study 4 : the symbolic representation of religion, culture and heritage and their implications on the tourism experience / Martin Scheer; title: Case study 5 : the importance and the role of faith (religious) tourism in the alternative tourism resources of Turkey / Ahmed Aktas & Yakin Ekin; title: Case study 6 : visiting sacred sites in India / Kiran A. Shinde; title: Case study 7 : Islamic pilgrimage and the market need for travel insurance / Tahir Rashid; title: Case study 8 : Fátima : the religious tourism altar / Maria I.R.B. de Pinho