How Long Does the Pilgrimage Tourism Experience to Santiago de Compostela Last?

Tourism and pilgrimage are different social phenomena (Cohen, 1992; Collins-Kreiner, 2010a); tourism is more secular than pilgrimage, which is mainly a sacred journey (Barber, 2001). In spite of this, both indicate a ‘movement'; so that tourists and pilgrims are ‘foreigners, travellers and stra...

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Main Author: Lopez, Lucrezia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2014]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14
Further subjects:B Experience
B Pilgrimages
B Way of St. James
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B Religious Tourism
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