Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

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CHAPTER 5 MAIN FINDINGS Table 5.1.13 Cross tabulation: Level of studies/Religion Level of studies Total Religion Primary Secondary University Religious Non religious Neutral Total 78 98 70 246 28 41 46 115 32 48 48 128 138 187 164 489 In the table 5.1.13, the level of studies is mixed with the religion, to find out any important relevance. To start with, there is the fact that people with lower level of studies have a stronger belief, as it can be appreciated, from 138 visitors who had just primary level of studies, 78 were religious, only 28 nonreligious and 32 were neutral, which means, religious but with a weak belief. 5.2 Hypothesis Results There are several hypotheses to test; to start with the first hypothesis states: most of the people who travel to a sacred site or to a place of pilgrimage are religious in their majority, and travel because of religious motivations. To test this hypothesis the tables 5.1.10 and 5.1.11 will be examined. First, table 5.1.10 shows that from all the 489 visitors asked, 301 came to Santiago mainly to visit the Cathedral. This fact does not show their religion but shows how important is the image of the Cathedral of Santiago as a sacred site. There were nonreligious people whose main reason was visit the Cathedral but with another aim, in this case, most of them confirmed that their motivations were the history of the Cathedral, its architecture or even the culture and traditions of the place, such as the Botafumeiro. To answer the hypothesis then table 5.1.11 must be analysed. In this table the religion of the visitors was asked in order to answer the hypothesis weather sacred sites is mainly visited by religious people in their majority. From 489 visitors, 246 David Mashhadigholam Rojo 52
CHAPTER 5 MAIN FINDINGS (50,3%) were religious with a strong belief, the rest 115 nonreligious, and 128 neutral, with a weak belief. These results shows that there is almost no significance between people who visit a sacred site with a strong belief and therefore according to their faith or other religious motivations, and those with weak and nonreligious belief. This fact shows how religion tourism is not only a type of tourism consumed by religious people but people with almost no religious belief are attracted also by sacred sites, such as Santiago, not because of religious motivation, but attracted by the culture of the place, its history, or as it was already stated, its architecture. Therefore can be stated the hypothesis is rejected as almost no difference is perceived between religious travellers and nonreligious visitors. A second hypothesis states: Most of the pilgrims which did the Way of Santiago were motivated by religion to do the pilgrimage. To answer this hypothesis the cross tabulated table 5.1.12 was created to facilitate the analysis. As in the table 5.1.9 can be seen that 126 visitors interview came directly from the Way of Santiago, it means that a 25,8% came as pilgrims. According to the religion of these visitors we can get the answer of this hypothesis. In the table 5.1.12 can be observed that 62 pilgrims had a strong religious belief versus 33 who stated that they considered themselves as nonreligious. 31 visitors had a neutral position. In spite of the answer of some neutral people who said that they had religious motives to do the pilgrimage, they were having a weak religious belief though, this data shows that nowadays the relation between pilgrims and religion is not affecting anymore as there were more nonreligious or people with a weak religious belief than religious people. Although the difference is barely perceptible, the number of pilgrims without religious believes is increasing. Nonreligious pilgrims were asked why were they doing the pilgrimage, and most of them David Mashhadigholam Rojo 53
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