Religious tourism scholarship: current state and future research directions

R Ohlan, A Ohlan - Journal of Islamic Marketing, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the knowledge domain and development trends that
appear in the scholarly corpus on religious tourism. Design/methodology/approach The …

Understanding consumer enchantment via paranormal tourism: Part I—Conceptual review

K Drinkwater, B Massullo, N Dagnall… - Cornell Hospitality …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Tourism-hospitality businesses sometimes market consumer experiences in terms of
“enchantment,” although this phrase is often used vaguely or variously. Therefore, we …

Understanding the influencing factors of heritage building maintenance management: findings from developed and developing regions

MI Adegoriola, EHK Yung, JHK Lai… - Building Research & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Heritage buildings (HBs) have been identified as iconic buildings vital to sustainable
development. Unlike modern buildings that can be maintained without conserving cultural …

Paranormal tourism: Market study of a novel and interactive approach to space activation and monetization

J Houran, SA Hill, ED Haynes… - Cornell Hospitality …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We review the premise, popularity, and profitability of paranormal tourism, which involves
visits to any setting or locale for the explicit purpose of encountering apparent supernatural …

[HTML][HTML] Tourism accessibility and its impact on the spiritual sustainability of sacred sites

S Aulet, T Duda - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Religious heritage sites are defined by their nature, both religious and non-religious
(historical, social, cultural, etc.), as being pilgrimage destinations, as well as tourist …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation of culture heritage tourism: A case study in Langkawi Kubang Badak Remnant Charcoal Kilns

CK Lim, KL Tan, M Farid Ahmed - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Remnants of old charcoal kilns found at Siam Village in Kubang Badak are about 100 years
old, from approximately the same time as World War I. However, little research has been …

Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages

A Thouki - International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The heritagization of religious sites has been increasingly studied in recent decades, with
the focus shifting from the impact of mass tourism to considering the appropriation and …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of religious tourists' satisfaction with Hajj services on their experience at the sacred places in Saudi Arabia

TH Hassan, AH Abdou, MA Abdelmoaty… - … of Tourism and …, 2022 - researchgate.net
To identify the impact of satisfaction with the provided services (food quality, transportation,
accommodation, medical services and the religious guidance) on the spiritual experience of …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable development in local culture industries: A case study of Taiwan Aboriginal communities

CH Yang, Y Sun, PH Lin, R Lin - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Taiwan's indigenous communities have an abundance of unique cultures. Their service
industries with local and foreign cultures have opened up distinct opportunities for …

[HTML][HTML] Things That go bump in the literature: An environmental appraisal of “haunted houses”

N Dagnall, KG Drinkwater, C O'Keeffe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on
anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.” This exercise served as a much …