Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
On the other hand, the results analyzed show that from all the visitors interviewed;
most of the people with university studies were nonreligious or neutral, with a weak
religious belief, versus those with primary or secondary studies with a strong
religious belief in their majority.
This result can be somehow disconcerting, since Santiago de Compostela is one of
the three more important places of pilgrimage of the Christian religion, since
Santiago de Compostela has one of the more important universities of Spain and
because Spain is a country with a strong religious tradition, would be appropriate to
think that the level of studies of the visitors should not to be directly related to the
fact weather they are religious or not.
In conclusion, after the whole analyse, the results suggest that religious tourism
nowadays, follows a clear tendency towards the cultural tourism, that the election of
a tourist destination is not directly bound to the religion of the visitor, and a religious
tourist destination continues being religious although the tourist is nonreligious or
has a weak religious belief.
6.2 Recommendations
Everything described in this dissertation, could be use both by the tourism industry
and for further research on religious tourism, specifically about the tourist destination
of Santiago de Compostela and its repercussion in the study of religious tourism.
6.2.1 Recommendations for the tourism industry
Being religious tourism one of the divisions of tourism, the analysis done and the
conclusions could be used by the tourism industry as it is described:
• In order to have information about the type of tourists that visit Santiago de
Compostela, concerning sex, place of residence, level of studies or cultural or
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