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The distinctions between tourism and migration are increasingly
blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility, and an
international workforce is essential to maintaining functioning
tourism economies. This book explores intersections of tourism and
migration, considering their relationships with and impacts on
social sustainability. The chapters explore in a variety of
contexts how the planning, development and governance of tourism
affects the sustainability of communities, which consequently
influences attitudes towards migrants and tourists. They also
consider how migrant-local connections may evolve, creating
opportunities for positive, symbiotic co-existence or intergroup
tensions and exploitative relationships. The book paves the way for
future work examining new forms and interactions between migration
and tourism that contribute to social sustainability. This book
will be of great value to students, academics, and researchers
interested in tourism, geography, migration/diaspora studies and
sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of Tourism Geographies.
Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the
Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines
the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving
beyond the officially recognized, and often religiously conceived,
pilgrimage sites. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of
pilgrims and tourists has demonstrated, pilgrimage need not be
religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned; rather, they can
be 'hyper-meaningful' voyages, set apart from the everyday profane
life-in a word, they are sacred. Separating the social category of
'religion' from the 'sacred,' this volume brings together a
multidisciplinary group of scholars employing perspectives from
anthropology, geography, sociology, religious studies, theology,
and interdisciplinary tourism studies to theorize sacredness, its
variability, and the ways in which it is officially recognized or
condemned by power brokers. Rich in case studies from sacred
centers throughout the world, the contributions pay close attention
to the ways in which pilgrims, central authorities, site managers,
locals, and other stakeholders on the ground appropriate,
negotiate, shape, contest, or circumvent the powerful forces of the
sacred. Delving 'beyond the officially sacred,' this collective
examination of pilgrimages-both well-established and new, religious
and secular, authorized and not-presents a compelling look at the
interplay of secular powers and the transcendent forces of the
sacred at these hyper-meaningful sites. Providing a blueprint for
how work in the anthropology and geography of religion, and the
fields of pilgrimage and religious tourism, may move forward,
Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred will be of great interest
to an interdisciplinary field of scholars. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue in Tourism Geographies.
For millennia people have travelled to religious sites for worship,
initiatory and leisure purposes. Today there are hundreds, if not
thousands, of religious pilgrimage routes and trails around the
world that are used by pilgrims as well as tourists. Indeed, many
religious pilgrimage routes and trails are today used as themes by
tourism marketers in an effort to promote regional economic
development. Providing a holistic approach to religious pilgrimage
routes and trails, this book: - Addresses important conceptual
themes such as sustainable local development, regional economic
development, heritage identity and management, and promoting
environmentally friendly practices; - Includes global case studies
to help transfer theory into good practice; - Calls for further
discussion of the importance of better planning, management, and
maintenance of these routes and trails, so that the positive
benefits of this type of tourism development can be fully realized.
An important resource for those interested in religious tourism and
pilgrimage, this book is also an invaluable collection for
academics and policy-makers within heritage tourism and regional
development.
Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the
Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines
the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving
beyond the officially recognized, and often religiously conceived,
pilgrimage sites. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of
pilgrims and tourists has demonstrated, pilgrimage need not be
religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned; rather, they can
be 'hyper-meaningful' voyages, set apart from the everyday profane
life-in a word, they are sacred. Separating the social category of
'religion' from the 'sacred,' this volume brings together a
multidisciplinary group of scholars employing perspectives from
anthropology, geography, sociology, religious studies, theology,
and interdisciplinary tourism studies to theorize sacredness, its
variability, and the ways in which it is officially recognized or
condemned by power brokers. Rich in case studies from sacred
centers throughout the world, the contributions pay close attention
to the ways in which pilgrims, central authorities, site managers,
locals, and other stakeholders on the ground appropriate,
negotiate, shape, contest, or circumvent the powerful forces of the
sacred. Delving 'beyond the officially sacred,' this collective
examination of pilgrimages-both well-established and new, religious
and secular, authorized and not-presents a compelling look at the
interplay of secular powers and the transcendent forces of the
sacred at these hyper-meaningful sites. Providing a blueprint for
how work in the anthropology and geography of religion, and the
fields of pilgrimage and religious tourism, may move forward,
Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred will be of great interest
to an interdisciplinary field of scholars. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue in Tourism Geographies.
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