THE CULTURAL TOURISM PERFORMED WITHIN THE RELIGIOUS SPACE – MILLENARY TRADITION AND ITS DIFFERENT FORMS
THE CULTURAL TOURISM PERFORMED WITHIN THE RELIGIOUS SPACE – MILLENARY TRADITION AND ITS DIFFERENT FORMS

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the millennia the humankind has created a great number of cultural, spiritual and material values which are reflecting the evolution level of civilizations. Through these, there are many values related to religious cults which were preserved in the world heritage, these values are concentrated particularly in holy places and worship places, being permanently concentration centers for pilgrims (reflection, worship and devotion). During the last century, when the tourism has registered an increasing importance, being stimulated by many motivations such as the cultural-spiritual one which is linked with religious areas, it has obtained a distinctive consideration, the clerics, the laymen and the atheists were aligning towards it. The atheists were focused on the cultural importance of those edifices. The effects were different – the diversification of the used language, the types of programs designed by organizers and the category of participants. According to them, it has resulted two main categories, the first one includes the pilgrimages (consisting of clerics and laymen as participants and have as motivation the direct participation to a varied religious program, being guided by specialized clerics); the second one includes the thematic trips (which have a multiple reason through which, the necessity of cultural, historical and religious knowledge is combining with recreation, relaxation, visits, shopping); both categories constitute the apanage of tourism agencies. Within the present research we are analyzing the meaning of each category.

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