Role of Technology on Religious Tourism in Turkey

Role of Technology on Religious Tourism in Turkey

Muhammad Farooq, Volkan Altintas
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8165-0.ch005
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Abstract

The religious tourism sector is a booming industry and attracts a sizable number of tourists around the world. While several factors play an important role in increasing the number of tourists for religious purposes, technology plays a vital role in managing and boasting religious tourism in a country. The authors aim to see this in the context of Turkey, a country that is a bridge between East and West, possessing a number of religious touristic sites and attracting a large number of tourists. The profile of the country and the role of technology in increasing tourism in Turkey also suggest improvements in the technological landscape of the country to increase and facilitate the religious tourists.
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Literature Review

Religious tourism can be traced in previous studies from the 1980s (Cohen, 1984; Graburn, 1983). The evolution of the movement of pilgrimage across different religions led to the subsequent typology of religious tourism.

The previous literature shows that researchers have observed different aspects in the context of religious tourism including pilgrimage tourism Henderson, (2011); Abbate & Di Nuovo, (2013), secular pilgrimage Collins-Kreiner, (2016), Brown, (2016), sustainable tourism Murray & Graham, (1997); Gupta, (1999) heritage tourism (Shackley, 2002; Bond et al., 2015).

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