Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION (2002)) Although they are completely different terms, cultural and religious tourism are linked one with another as a religion is always part of the culture. According to Vukonic (1996), most religions require, whatever the aim is, to visit holy places. Visiting sacred places help people to verify and reinforce their beliefs, seeing that the personages they believe in were real people who lived in our world in other times. Nowadays, there are thousands of different holy places around the world which have enough attractions to develop and provoke movements among the population. Those holy places have a different meaning for each group of people (cultural, religious, mystic, etc), depending on the aim of their trip. However, when is spoken about holy places, there is no need to think only about modern practising ones, such as cathedrals and synagogues, but also in the ancient religions and their legacies, such as Machu Pichu in Peru, or Stonehenge in England, as they are also the result of ancient’s beliefs. 1.2 Reasons for choosing this topic Pilgrimages to tradition places or religious cult made from the antiquity, have become for long ago until nowadays in one of the most important parts in tourism, what is known by religious tourism, and in one of the main studied and analysed motivations in order to choose a tourist destination. Being the religion one of the most influential factors along humanity, and its cultural and economic develop, I found quite interesting to research in this topic, not only for my personal enrichment but also because I describe myself as a religious tourism consumer. From the previous analysis done in order to find a topic to research on, and before deciding why choosing this topic and not another, new doubts arose concerning David Mashhadigholam Rojo 2
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION which tourist destination should I choose and the different factors to analyse. Among those factors, the most interesting was getting to know weather the majority of the tourists, visiting religious destinations, had a strong religious belief or not, in other words, if religion had affected the tourists in order to visit this type of destinations. In spite of the fact that at the beginning I wanted to study a comparative analyse between the most significant religious tourist destinations from the main religions in the world, I chose centring my research on only one religion and one tourist destination, in this case, Christianity in Santiago de Compostela as one of the most representative sites for this religion. The reasons in order to make a decision were various. For example, the proximity to the city were I was writing the thesis, getting to know weather most of the visitants were religious or non religious, or just the fact of visiting the city. 1.3 Research Area In this study, the research area focuses on religious tourism. Santiago de Compostela as a case study will be the area researched where a sample of 489 visitors will answer the question weather religion or religious activities are the main motivation of the tourists to visit the city, specially the Cathedral, as an example of a sacred site and pilgrimage destination. 1.4 Research Aim and Objectives The research aim and objectives of this dissertation, covers the fact that religious people travel around the world to visit sacred sites because of the religion, and not because of another type of motivation, such as cultural motivation, or historical motivation. The main objective of the dissertation is to find out how much is increasing the number of non believers, or people without a strong religious belief travel who travel David Mashhadigholam Rojo 3
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REFERENCES REFERENCES • AL-AMIN,
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REFERENCES • PERNECKY, T., 2004.
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REFERENCES • SCOTT, J., 2000. Soc
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