Revised edition of: Religious tourism and pilgrimage festivals management.

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 appearance and development of religious tourism and pilgrimage. Part I (chapters 1-6) covers concepts in religious tourism and pilgrimage management. Part II (chapters 7-11) deals with motivation and the experience of religious sites. Part III (chapters 12-21) presents a range of case studies of religious and pilgrimage activity, related to ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations and new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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