Pilgrims' health behaviours need to change

The relation of man to the environment has occupied the attention of governments, institutions and individuals. Tourism is an activity that consumes space, through the services presented such as religious festivals, rural and urban tourism, Santo Antônio, São João and São Pedro, cultural, local...

Marginal and less-favored regions are characterized by negative migration balance, lower living standards, aging of the population, a lower number of employment opportunities, lower educational level, and lower investments in the territory. Gemer is one of these regions in Slovakia. On the other...

In the urban ecosystem, the demand for cultural ecosystem services (CES) has greatly increased, and the imbalance of CES supply and demand has been prominent. This paper integrated multi-source data to analyze and visualize the spatial differences in CES demand and supply capacity between Shanghai...

There has been a fundamental shift in the literature toward recognizing the personal growth capacity of leisure. The aim of this study was to provide an integrated approach to understanding Templestay performance diversity. Our thesis is that to the extent that temples facilitate personal growth...

Muslims' demand for tourism is increasing, with their primary concern being Halal food. There remains, however, a dearth of empirical studies in this domain, particularly in the non-Islamic context. This research explores how non-Islamic destinations can satisfy Muslim tourists' food demand from a...

This study aims to examine perceived authenticity of foreign tourists in comparison to online projected authenticity of an iconic visitor attraction, by adopting a Peircean semiotic approach. Peircean types of signs namely iconic, indexical and symbolic are used to identify perceived and projected...

The old Bhubaneswar precinct is a prime religious and heritage site in India, which attracts millions of pilgrims and other travellers every year. This paper measures pedestrians' mobility experiences and the influence of different factors in this heritage precinct. Five hundred respondents were...

The tourist is constantly seeking out new experiences, and there is a growing interest in experiences at religious sites. This article examines tourists' church experience, and what meaning it gives, and what motivates tourists to visit a church on their holiday. With a particular focus on the...

Tourism culture is the key resource by which the tourism industry of a region survives. This study analyzed the cultural perception image of Wuxi among tourists by using content analysis techniques, such as word frequency analysis, semantic network analysis, and sentiment analysis based on the...