This chapter introduces the concept of pilgrimage, and reviews different theories and perspectives to understand the motivations of pilgrims.

This chapter highlights the key welfare issues with regard to elephant attractions and presents the findings of a survey of tourists who have previously visited elephant attractions in Asia which aimed to find out more about their motivations, the activities they undertook, their experiences and...

This book gathers contributions that address pilgrim motivation, identity and values as they are shaped by the broader sociological, psychological, cultural and anthropological perspectives. The focus of the book is the travellers themselves and their inner world through the lens of their...

This chapter provides a theoretical framework of pilgrimage based on values and identities. An overview of the concept of values and identity reveals their inter-relationships and importance in a person's choices. Religiosity could be measured by different dimensions and indicators. However, a...

This chapter discusses the motivations, values and identities of thanatourism. The motivation to visit death spaces could be related to religion, personal or social identity, empathy and remembrance. However, there are also secular sets of motivations, including education and cognition, curiosity,...

The main aim of this chapter is to analyse the motivations and impacts of the pilgrimage on pilgrims' personal lives. The research addresses the importance of 'mobility' in this sacred and spiritual space in order to analyse its impacts on personal lives. It provides an original contribution to the ...

This chapter offers an analysis about the motivations, values and identities of pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostela. It also analyses the agents that manage the different routes to Santiago, such as international agencies, public administration, the Church and the Associations of the Friends ...

The objective of this chapter is to make a comparison between the identities and values of the Portuguese tourist-pilgrims and the foreign tourist-pilgrims on the Portuguese Inner Way of Santiago de Compostela (PIWSC). There are differences between the motivations of the pilgrims according to their ...

This chapter explores changes in travel motivation to pilgrimage sites in Japanese society across different historical contexts, mainly during the post-war period. It also discusses the increasing presence of western visitors in Japanese pilgrimage sites, who are motivated by a variety of factors...

This chapter provides an in-depth examination of the contemporary perspectives of Hindu pilgrimage in India. Issues of pilgrimage cycle, motives and the journey, and experiential reflection, are narrated in the context of historicity and contemporality, and finally the context of relevance and...