Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

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CHAPTER 5 MAIN FINDINGS responded as in the other hypothesis that as part of the Spanish tradition they felt interested to do the Way of Santiago but not from the religious aspect of pilgrimage, or from religious motivations. According to Post et al (1998) young pilgrims, go on pilgrimage for recreation and to meet other pilgrims. Therefore can be stated that the second hypothesis is rejected as there was almost no differentiation with the data, it also means that the number of pilgrims without a religious belief is increasing. A third hypothesis states: People with primary or secondary studies have a stronger religious belief than people with university studies. In order to test this third hypothesis will be necessary to refer to the table 5.1.3 and the cross tabulated table 5.1.13. From the results can be observed that 138 visitors had primary studies, 187 visitors had secondary studies and 164 had University studies. To answer this hypothesis we have to study the amount of visitors with lower level of studies than university studies. Therefore as in the cross tabulated table 5.1.13 can be seen how from 325 visitors mixing people with primary and secondary level of studies, 176 visitors, 54 % were religious with a strong religious belief. From the visitors with university studies can be found out that from 164 visitors, 70 were religious, 42% of them had a strong religious belief, and the rest, 58%, had no, or weak religious belief. With these results can be stated that people with primary or secondary studies, are more likely to have strong religious belief than people with university studies. Therefore the last hypothesis is accepted. David Mashhadigholam Rojo 54
CHAPTER 5 MAIN FINDINGS 5.3 Research Results All the analysis and all the results take the 489 visitors as consumers of religious tourism not taking in consideration their religious belief. • There is almost no difference between the sex of the visitors to sacred sites 51,1% men, and 48,9% women. • 10,2% of the visitors interviewed came from Galicia, 68,7% from the rest of Spain and a 21,1% from other countries. • Referring the activities done during the stay in Santiago de Compostela, a 67% chose cultural activities such as sightseeing or visiting museums, only a 30% decided to celebrate masses and other religious activities inside the Cathedral. • The level of studies of the sample does not stand out but still 164 visitors had university studies, and the rest 325 had primary and secondary level of studies. • With a 52,6% could be appreciated that is common to travel to religious sites with the family, in groups of 3 or 4 people staying in 3 stars hotels. • Only a 0,2% stayed at 5 stars hotels. • Just a 5,3% visited the city because of businesses and uses their spare time in visiting the Cathedral. • The main reason the visit Santiago de Compostela is to visit the Cathedral with a 61,6% of responses. • 30 visitors coming to Santiago de Compostela through the Way of Santiago, did the pilgrimage alone, and 18 of them without any religious reason. • Most of them with a 50,3% describe themselves as persons with a strong religious belief. • 68’5% of the visitors stayed at Santiago de Compostela between 1 and 3 days and only a 2’9% of the visitors said that they were staying more than 10 days. • People interviewed from outside Spain, answered that their main reason to visit Santiago de Compostela (for those whose main reason was not visiting David Mashhadigholam Rojo 55
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