This special issue seeks to explore how tourism providers meet the demands of present-day tourists who on the one hand strive to see the world and on the other are constrained by religious and traditional obligations. The special issue identifies six strategic areas that reveal how the two parties...

The importance of halal tourism has prompted countries and business operators to place more emphasis on this lucrative sector. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of halal-friendly destination attributes on inbound tourists' behavioral intention in the context of Malaysia....

Prior research has mainly focused on the effect of tourist perceived value on customer satisfaction and behavior intention; the relationship between tourist perceived value and life satisfaction in religious tourism has been overlooked. This study aims to examine the link between tourist perceived...

Worldwide, Muslim travelers are expected to be worth more than US$450 billion by 2026. Ignoring Muslim tourists would be a missed opportunity for any country's economy that depends on tourism. This study aims to help non-Muslim tourism providers to understand what Muslim travelers require....

In a globalized world, incoming tourists bring with them a variety of expectations. As destinations are coming to accept the variability of consumer needs, destination managers seek to identify additional factors that can determine tourists' evaluations and intentions. This study promotes the...

This text objective is a general review and reflection of the characteristics of religious tourism: debates, globalization, pilgrimages, commerce and places of worship. This study lands with some images and traditional temples of popular religiosity in Mexico. Interviews are conducted in addition...

Residents of Kampung Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia respond differently to night-time tourist activity. This historic batik kampung was transformed into an international tourist destination, sowing resident discontent over traffic, anti-social behaviour and noise. Conflict with religious...

Diaspora tourism has become a significant form of transnational mobility that underlies many issues in the field of tourism and migration studies. Despite a considerable body of research that focuses on tourism motivations of home return and its social functions in collective identities and...

Tourism in search of spiritual oneness with Nature is considered to be one of the new trends in tourism. Thus, the objective of this article is to contextualise research into Spiritual Tourism and to understand its relationship with Nature. Initially a review of the literature was carried out to...

Temples are important religious sites within Chinese societies. While there is a considerable body of work on the development of religious tourism and the monastic community, little research has been conducted on the temple keeper community in Chinese folk-religion temples. Temple keepers are those ...