1st Edition
Religious Tourism An Essential Reader
Introduction
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Nikolaos Stylos
Part I: Exploring the Intersection of Tourism and Religion
1. Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure?
Dan Knox, Kevin Hannam, Peter Jan Margry, Daniel H. Olsen and Noel B. Salazar
2. Self-Expression and Play: Can Religious Tourism be Hedonistic?
Sean Lochrie, Ian W. F. Baxter, Elaine Collinson, Ross Curran, Martin Joseph, Gannon, Babak Taheri, Jamie Thompson and Ozge Yalinay
3. Pilgrimage: Journeying Beyond Self
Chris Devereux and Elizabeth Carnegie
4. Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes
Derek H. Alderman
5. Sacred World Heritage Sites: Balancing Meaning With Management
Myra Shackley
6. Complementarity: Bridging the Tourism Academic/Religion Divide
Stephen Schweinsberg
7. Sacred Journeys: Religious Heritage and Tourism
Dallen J. Timothy
Part II: Spiritual Dimensions of Religious Tourism
8. Exploring the Restorative Benefits of Spiritual Retreats: the Case of Clergy Retreats in Australia
Chelsea Gill, Jan Packer and Roy Ballantyne
9. Religion, Spirituality, and the Formation of Tourism Knowledge
Stephen Schweinsberg
10. Spiritual Hosting and Tourism: The Host-Guest Dimension
Yoel Mansfeld and Alison J. Mcintosh
11. Spirituality and Tourism: An Anthropologist's View
Sagar Singh
12. Pilgrimage and Tourism Anthropological Perspectives
Sagar Singh and J. Anthony Paredes
13. Eudaimonic Benefits of Tourism: the Plgrimage Experience
Marc van Iwaarden and Jeroen Nawijn
14. Motivations of Urban Millennials for Spiritual Travel in India
Snigdha Kainthola, Nimit Chowdhary, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav and Pinaz Tiwari
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 and Digital Innovation 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.
