Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism: Asia and Beyond 9789811996771, 9789811996764, 9811996776

Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism: Asia and Beyond 9811996768, 9789811996764

This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic resear

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Beyond Backpacker Tourism: Mobilities and Experiences 9781845411329

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both wi

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Buddhist Tourism in Asia 9780824882822

This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizatio

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Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana 1317674995, 9781317674993

Processes of globalization have led to diasporic groups longing for their homelands. One such group includes descendants

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Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond 9781845456610

As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to m

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Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India 0190883553, 9780190883553

Every year, the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar sees its population of 20,000 swell by two million visitors. Since the

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From Pilgrimage to Package Tour : Travel and Tourism in the Third World 9781136078668, 9780415950626

When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast expanses of the Third World today, they typically thi

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From medieval pilgrimage to religious tourism : the social and cultural economics of piety 2001051170

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Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India 0190883553, 9780190883553

Every year, the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar sees its population of 20,000 swell by two million visitors. Since the

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Tours that bind: diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism 9780814748176, 9780814748428, 9780814748169

Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award 2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociolo

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