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Title: | Case Study 6: Visiting Sacred Sites in India: Religious Tourism or Pilgrimage? | Contributor(s): | Shinde, Kiran (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6095 | Abstract: | Travel provides an opportunity to fulfil one's desire to move away from the routines of life in order to seek changes, such as spiritual, religious or recreational. Such travel, depending on the motivation, the destination and the journey, generally finds expression within the spectrum of two polar types of movements, pilgrimage and tourism. While the focus in pilgrimage is on the association with some sacred and numinous supernatural power and the ability to go closer to it by means of religious practices, tourism is mainly about 'getting away' to experience a change, and is replete with hedonistic pursuits. There has been a substantial body of literature dominated by discussions on the similarities and differences between the two (MacCannell, 1973; Graburn, 1978; Turner and Turner, 1978; Cohen, 1992; Smith, 1992). | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Festivals Management: An International Perspective, p. 184-197 | Publisher: | CABI | Place of Publication: | Wallingford, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 1845932250 9781845932251 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160403 Social and Cultural Geography 160402 Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 900302 Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified |
HERDC Category Description: | B2 Chapter in a Book - Other | Publisher/associated links: | http://bookshop.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=191&page=2633&pid=2021 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34723936?selectedversion=NBD40983634 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vhnebGquwUIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 |
Editor: | Editor(s): Razaq Raj and Nigel D. Morpeth |
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