Tourism Review: Volume 70 Issue 3

Tourism and the transformation of ritual practice with sand pagodas in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand

Ploysri Porananond

– This study aims to examine the transformation process in traditional beliefs and practices in the use of sand in the Songkran Festival in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.

Religious tourism and religious tolerance: insights from pilgrimage sites in India

Kiran A Shinde

– This paper aims to explore the ways in which religious tourism in India fosters religious tolerance.

In search of miracles: pilgrimage to the miraculous places

Darius Liutikas

The purpose of this paper is to discuss various aspects of the development of the places of apparitions and miraculous images, motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims…

Examining the religious tourism potential of Manisa, Turkey with a marketing perspective

Burak Kartal, Mustafa Tepeci, Hakan Atlı

This paper aims to, by having a marketing perspective, assess the potential of Manisa for religious tourism and shed some light on the ways of increasing that potential and to add…

The relationship between local residents’ perceptions of tourism and their happiness: a case of Kusadasi, Turkey

Ahmet Bulent Ozturk, Ozgur Ozer, Uğur Çaliskan

The purpose of this study was to determine the local residents’ attitudes of tourism in Kusadasi, Turkey. In addition, the relationship between residents’ attitudes toward tourism…