Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism highlights the role of religious tourism and pilgrimage as a tool for improving cultural relations. Helping to form culture and society worldwide, faith plays a vital part in cross-cultural conflict resolution and opening dialogue across peoples. This book shows how faith and activism can respond to the common challenges of peace making and coexistence both within and among the world's many traditions. The book: - contains diverse empirical resear...

Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised, where annual religious festivals are commemorated with mass gatherings lasting for days and large crowds require detailed disaster management plans. Beginning with a general section on risk management, covering areas such as disaster management, terrorism, crime and security, the book then delve...

Islamic tourism is not purely motivated by religion; it also includes participants pursuing similar leisure experiences to non-Muslims, within the parameters set by Islam. Destinations are therefore not necessarily locations where Shari'a or full Islamic law is enforced. Demand for Islamic tourism destinations is increasing as the Muslim population expands, with the market forecast to be worth around US$238 billion. This book explores the ever-widening gap between the religious, tourism, m...

Within the past 10 years 'Religious Tourism' has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations and looks at secular and sacred spaces on a global stage. The second edition sees the introduction of a new structure and the addition of new international case studies. It is an invaluable re...

Gizlenenin Çağrısı — İnanç, Rivayet ve Bilim Üzerinden Görünmez AlemlerPerdenin arkasında bir şey fısıldıyor — kimi zaman bir dua, kimi zaman unutulmuş bir masal, bazen de bir hastanın geceyarısı anlattığı aynı kâbus. Bu kitap, "görünmez" dediğimiz o âlemleri; Kuranî referanslardan halk rivayetlerine, psikiyatri vakalarından arkeolojik izlere dek üç boyutlu bir mercek altında inceleyen bir yolculuktur.Yasin Güneş, kutsal metinler, halk anlatıları ve modern b...