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The practice of religious tourism is a complex phenomenon that aims visiting the religious buildings, as well as promoting the cultural and spiritual values. Social behaviours, ritual practices, motivations, destinations and manifestations of the pilgrimage have become more diversified throughout history, depending on the requirements and on the specificities of socio-cultural realities. The analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon can be addressed both quantitatively and qualitatively (the analysis of pilgrims relig...

The increasing mobility of people, the improvement of the mass travel as well as the accommodation and recreational infrastructure development facilitate the tourism activities, and implicitly encourage visiting the Holy Places. Often, the offers of travel agencies neglect the intrinsic aspects of a genuine pilgrimage: the spiritual aspects, the proposal of a faith itinerary and the conservation of sacred aspects into the pilgrimage to the Holy Places. This confusion and the lack of involvement on the part of the ...