Within the past 10 years, Religious Tourism has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations and looks at secular and sacred spaces on a global stage. The second edition sees the introduction of a new structure and the addition of new international case studies. It is an invaluable reference for academics, students and practitioners and is a timely text on the future of faith-based...

This book covers the ideological motives and religious perceptions behind travel to sites prescribed with sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It covers sites that have drawn pilgrims and religious tourists to them for hundreds of years and seeks to provide an understanding of the complex world of religiously motivated travel. Beginning with contemporary perspectives of pilgrimage across these religions, it then discusses management aspects such as logistics, infrastructure, malevolent behavior, and evangelical volunteers.

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- Provides a collection of new,...

Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism highlights the role of religious tourism and pilgrimage as a tool for improving cultural relations. Helping to form culture and society worldwide, faith plays a vital part in cross-cultural conflict resolution and opening dialogue across peoples. This book shows how faith and activism can respond to the common challenges of peace making and coexistence both within and among the world's many traditions.

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- contains diverse empirical research insights on aspects of religious traditions, conflicts and challenges;
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Travellers face many challenging manifestations in the form of terrorism, risk and safety issues. This book focuses on the risk and safety atrocities being faced by holy visitors, critically examining these issues and providing a valuable reference for those studying within the area of religion and events.

This book explores the central role of ordinary people in the popularisation of faith-based practices, illustrating religious tourism as an expression of cultural identity; the interrelationship of cultural groups; and the overall formation of culture and society.

The Asia-Pacific region is considered the world's religious core with the greatest number of pilgrims and travellers for religious events, for both international and domestic tourism. This book reviews tourism and sacred sites within Asia, including practical case study examples from across the region.