A review of spiritual tourism: A conceptual model for future research
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Tarih
2021
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University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Opatija
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Purpose – The growth of non-materialistic impulses among people around the world has led to the emergence of a special category of tourism that can be termed ‘spiritual tourism’. This article presents an attempt to provide a conceptual model for spiritual tourism drawing from the literature on spirituality, religion, and tourism. Design/ Approach – As this study intends to build a bridge between spirituality and tourism, the authors reviewed various articles and adopted the Spiritual Intelligence Model devised by Hanefar, Sa’ari, and Siraj (2016) to build a conceptual model of spiritual tourism. Methodology – Content analysis was used to arrange more than forty dimensions of spiritual tourism from the chosen articles. These dimensions were coded and mapped against the Spiritual Intelligence Model. Findings – The emergent dimensions of spiritual tourism showed that tourism offers unique opportunities in guiding human being to gain spiritual development through religion and nonreligion tourism activities/experiences. Originality of the research – The authors developed a Conceptual Model of Spiritual Tourism with seven themes: Meaning/Purpose of life, Consciousness, Transcendence, Spiritual resources, Selfdetermination, Reflection – soul purification, and Spiritual coping (with obstacles). This model intends to serve as a systematic pathway to authors and other researchers for future research related to spiritual tourism.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Spiritual Tourism, Purpose of Life, Consciousness, Transcendence, Content Analysis
Kaynak
Tourism and Hospitality Management
WoS Q Değeri
Q3
Scopus Q Değeri
Q3
Cilt
27
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1
Künye
Abdul Halim, M.S., Tatoglu, E. ve Mohamad Hanefar, S.B. (2021). A review of spiritula tourism: A conceptual model for fure research. Tourism and Hospitality Management, 27(1), 119-141.
