The Pilgrimage to Mecca

An Explanatory and Predictive Model

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4139956
AutoresGwyn Rowley (University of Sheffield), A S El-Hamdan (Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Government of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), S A S El-Hamdan (Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Government of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Año1978
Volumen10
Número9
Páginas1053-1071
Fecha de publicación1978-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a101053
PMID12262752
OpenAlexW1993678861
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas2

The recent and continuing phenomenal growth in the numbers undertaking the pilgrimage to Mecca is considered against the backcloth of the host region's finite resources. A multiple-regression model is developed which seeks to explain the present pattern of pilgrim movement and to predict future numbers. Insights are provided into the actual stage-by-stage development towards the final model. The assumptions implicit within our evaluations are clearly and unequivocably indicated and discussed. Improved levels of explanation result from more-realistic data inputs. Future pilgrim numbers are predicted for 1983 and 1993. The problem of the ever increasing numbers of pilgrims is briefly alluded to and interim measures are suggested

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