ID - 131905068 TI - Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism : Asia and Beyond AU - Progano, Ricardo Nicolas AU - Cheer, Joseph M. AU - Santos, Xosé Manuel PY - 2023 SN - 9789811996771 9789811996764 9789811996788 9789811996795 PB - Singapore Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Industrial economics KW - Business management KW - Civil engineering. Building industry KW - History of Asia KW - wereldgeschiedenis KW - industrie KW - management KW - Asia KW - Industries. KW - Management. KW - Asian History. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131905068 AB - This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both international and domestic tourism. In particular, Europe and Asia possess a high volume of world-renowned pilgrimage sites that are currently being developed as tourism destinations in their respective countries, such as Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Lourdes (France), and Koyasan (Japan). This book includes studies on these two continents that harbor both a great history of pilgrimage tradition, as well as tourism development related to religious travel. The book importantly covers the role of the community in religious tourism, as well as the impact on the locals, which is comparatively an unexplored area. Whilst pilgrimage is seen as an effective tool to revitalize local economies, this book also reveals the different challenges to achieving this goal. Realizing the importance of the interrelationship of community and pilgrimage travel, as well as the lack of studies on it, this book seeks to address this research gap through 14 chapters divided into two parts, ‘Communities and Constestation’ and ‘Pilgrimage Shaping Communities’. To ensure diverse perspectives, case studies from different Eurasian countries, written by authors with expertise in the study of pilgrimage and religious travel, are included. Readers can expect to gain new perspectives by having a deeper comprehension of the ‘community side‘ of pilgrimage travel in Eurasia, and thus an integral understanding of contemporary pilgrimage. ER -