1st Edition
Religious Tourism A Global Perspective
Introduction
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Nikolaos Stylos
Part I: A Global Perspective on Religious Tourism
1. The holy hues of Amritsar: an inquiry into the interplay of religious tourism and sacred space
Priyanka Jha, Taruna Bansal, Pankaj Rawat and Vishal Warpa
2. Where West Meets the Middle East—Jumeirah Mosque Visit
Kuo I-Ling
3. Pilgrimage and Tourism at Santiago de Compostela
Xosé M. Santos
4. Religion and Tourism in Western China
Richard H. Jackson and James A. Davis
5. Teaching Truth in Third Space': The Use of History as a Pedagogical Instrument at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah
Daniel H. Olsen
6. Motivations and meanings for Camino pilgrims
Michael Basil
7. Spirituality, drugs, and tourism: tourists’ and shamans’ experiences of ayahuasca in Iquitos, Peru
Girish Prayag, Paolo Mura, Colin Michael Hall and Julien Fontaine
8. Pilgrimage and Prostitution: Contrasting Modes of Border Tourism in Lower South Thailand
Marc Askew and Erik Cohen
Part II: Religious Tourism in Himalayan Region
9. Naimisharanya: Legend, Myth and Reality
Rita Sharma
10. Nepal: Land of Sagarmatha and Sherpas Mountains and Monasteries
Mario Fantin, T. V. Singh, Robert Fieming, Linda Fieming and Jagdish Kaur
11. From Ganga to Gaumukh: In Quest of Religious Cum Recreational Resources
Jagdish Kaur
12. Bibliographical Sources for Himalayan Pilgrimages and Tourism Studies: Uttarakhand
Jagdish Kaur
Biography
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Recreation Research and a member of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has been honored by the 2011-2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the 2013, 2017, and 2018 Emerald Literati Awards, and the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.
Anestis K. Fotiadis is Full Professor at Zayed University, College of Business, Department of Management, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His main area of research is associated with tourism management, event management, hospitality management and sustainable development. He has published more than 40 research papers in international academic journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Business Research and others.
Nikolaos Stylos is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Bristol Business School, UK and Honorary Professor of Hospitality Management at Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan, He is an internationally recognised and awarded scholar specialising in marketing innovation, and digital transformation in the service industries.
