Assessment of the religious-tourism potential in Romania

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ID12948664
AutoresGiușcă Mădălina-Cristiana (University of Bucharest, autor de correspondencia), Gheorghilaș Aurel (University of Bucharest), Liliana Dumitrache (0000-0003-0466-4886, University of Bucharest)
Año2018
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas225-237
Fecha de publicación2018-11-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1843-6587 • E-ISSN: 2067-2284
EditorialUniversity of Bucharest (Bucharest University Press) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5719/hgeo.2018.122.6
OpenAlexW2903093246
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas7

This paper aims to provide a model for the assessment of the religious-tourism potential in Romania. The religious practice has been in a continuous change over the past 20 years, making the pilgrimage phenomenon to have an upward trend. In the same time, many religious edices are becoming more attractive to visitors, as they are included in package tours, and visited by large numbers of tourists. In Romania, there are many religious places visited both, by tourists or pilgrims; it is difcult to assess their numbers and also to distinguish between religious practices and touristic visits as no studies have been conducted in this direction. They are centres of religious (spiritual) power, in which people regularly spend money and time while around them it has been developed a real infrastructure, from roads or construction of facilities to more complex services that include accommodation, stores or commercial stalls, selling souvenirs or items more or less related to religious practice. Therefore, the objectives of this paper aimed at evaluating the tourist valences of religious edices in Romania as well as the degree of their valorisation; in order to meet these objectives, three dimensions were considered and assessed: the historical-cultural dimension, the religious dimension, and the economic dimension. Many relevant elements for these dimensions have been quantied, giving them scores based on unitary criteria. The results help to see better the differentiation/association between the tourist value and the religious value of religious edices in Romania, highlighting particularities at the national level, which will be the subject of further analysis

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