International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Volume 7 Issue 2 Special Issue : Volume 1 of Papers Presented at 10th International Religious Article 11 Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference 2018, Santiago de Compostela 2019 Religious tourism and emotional experiences: An emotional cartography of Jerusalem Ion Gil Fuentetaja Department of Tourism, University of Deusto, Spain,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp Part of the Tourism and Travel Commons Recommended Citation Gil Fuentetaja, Ion and Abad-Galzacorta, Marina (2019) "Religious tourism and emotional experiences: An emotional cartography of Jerusalem," International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 7: Iss. 2, Article 11. doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/rw1f-9087 Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss2/11 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. © International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage ISSN : 2009-7379 Available at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/ Volume 7(ii) 2019 Religious tourism and emotional experiences: An emotional cartography of Jerusalem Ion Gil-Fuentetaja Marina Abad-Galzacorta
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[email protected] Department of Tourism, University of Deusto, Spain An increasingly important segment of cultural tourism relates to ‘religious travel’, tourism motivated by spiritual reasons or associated with religious heritage sites. Thus, travel agencies are offering extensive journey packages to ancient places of worship, sacred destinations and pilgrimage sites. In this sense, according to data offered by the Ministry of Tourism of Israel, around one fifth of tourists to the country expressed religious tourism or pilgrimage as the main purpose of their visit.