Religious Travel and Tourism in a Globalising World
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Monique Ingalls
Mar 30, 2012, 1:25:50 PM3/30/12
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International Conference on Religious Travel and Tourism in a
Globalising World
27-28 April 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus
The University of Nicosia, the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Tourism
(EMAT), and the Cyprus Tourism Organization (CTO), welcome the
submission of papers for an international conference, with the title:
GUIDING THE PILGRIM: RELIGIOUS TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN A GLOBALISING
WORLD
Registration for the conference is still open at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdOVVVuZi1ibzRNejJZTUg1YWVkYUE6MQ#gid=0
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Roehampton and Visiting Professor at the Migration Research Unit,
University College London
Professor Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor, Dept.
and Centre for the Study of Religion (Cross-Appointment, Dept. of
Anthropology)
Ms. Isabel Garaña, Regional Director for Europe World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO)
The theme of the conference
With more and more people being on the move in today’s world, guiding
them to and around places has become a key issue. There has developed
a vast written and oral literature designed to help people to their
destination and enjoy their time there. This literature ranges from
brochures, advertisements, travel and audio guides, site signage and
interpretation, and descriptions of localities in the media to travel
writing and travel blogging.
Many of those travelling are interested in religious sites with the
result that religion is a now key contributor to travel and tourism
around the world. Religious tourism or, perhaps more appropriately,
religious pilgrimage flourishes around the world, despite the
declining numbers of those involved in institutional religion in
Europe at least. However, pilgrimage is not just about institutional
religion - it includes spiritual travel and secular pilgrimage.
Spiritual travel involves those who are engaged in new forms of
spirituality such as ‘New Age’ beliefs and practices. Secular pilgrims
include those who are finding meaning through different types of
tourism such as cultural, heritage and nature tourism.
This conference will explore how travellers have been and are given
guidance by diverse written and oral texts in the context of religious
and secular pilgrimage. We aim to bring together academics working
across disciplines (i.e. history, sociology, anthropology, tourist and
literary studies etc.) and those operating within the travel and
tourism industry. We hope, thereby, to open a mutually beneficial
dialogue.
The conference will explore such questions as:
How are religious and secular pilgrims guided to their destinations?
How are they guided around those destinations?
How are their expectations and experiences of those places shaped by
the written and oral literature guiding them?
What is their role in shaping those texts and thereby the expectations
of other visitors?
What is the role of tour guides, people, as well as oral and written
texts, in shaping the experience of the journey and destination?
How is the identity of these travellers and local people influenced by
this literature?
What role do these various texts play in helping people shift between
secular and religious forms of pilgrimage?
The conference is addressed to:
The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and students
working on various types of tourism – heritage, cultural, religious –
and forms of travel relating to different types of pilgrimage, as well
as practitioners involved in the associated sectors of the tourism
industry (travel agents, tour operators, hoteliers, tour guides).
Language:
The language of the conference will be English.
Proposed duration and format (depending on participation):
A two-day conference, with keynote addresses, followed by paper
presentations and discussion.
For information concerning the programme, location, venue,
registration fees, please visit:
http://www.emat.ac.cy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50:international-conference-on-religious-travel-and-tourism&catid=8
For online registration please follow the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdOVVVuZi1ibzRNejJZTUg1YWVkYUE6MQ#gid=0
Globalising World
27-28 April 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus
The University of Nicosia, the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Tourism
(EMAT), and the Cyprus Tourism Organization (CTO), welcome the
submission of papers for an international conference, with the title:
GUIDING THE PILGRIM: RELIGIOUS TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN A GLOBALISING
WORLD
Registration for the conference is still open at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdOVVVuZi1ibzRNejJZTUg1YWVkYUE6MQ#gid=0
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Roehampton and Visiting Professor at the Migration Research Unit,
University College London
Professor Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor, Dept.
and Centre for the Study of Religion (Cross-Appointment, Dept. of
Anthropology)
Ms. Isabel Garaña, Regional Director for Europe World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO)
The theme of the conference
With more and more people being on the move in today’s world, guiding
them to and around places has become a key issue. There has developed
a vast written and oral literature designed to help people to their
destination and enjoy their time there. This literature ranges from
brochures, advertisements, travel and audio guides, site signage and
interpretation, and descriptions of localities in the media to travel
writing and travel blogging.
Many of those travelling are interested in religious sites with the
result that religion is a now key contributor to travel and tourism
around the world. Religious tourism or, perhaps more appropriately,
religious pilgrimage flourishes around the world, despite the
declining numbers of those involved in institutional religion in
Europe at least. However, pilgrimage is not just about institutional
religion - it includes spiritual travel and secular pilgrimage.
Spiritual travel involves those who are engaged in new forms of
spirituality such as ‘New Age’ beliefs and practices. Secular pilgrims
include those who are finding meaning through different types of
tourism such as cultural, heritage and nature tourism.
This conference will explore how travellers have been and are given
guidance by diverse written and oral texts in the context of religious
and secular pilgrimage. We aim to bring together academics working
across disciplines (i.e. history, sociology, anthropology, tourist and
literary studies etc.) and those operating within the travel and
tourism industry. We hope, thereby, to open a mutually beneficial
dialogue.
The conference will explore such questions as:
How are religious and secular pilgrims guided to their destinations?
How are they guided around those destinations?
How are their expectations and experiences of those places shaped by
the written and oral literature guiding them?
What is their role in shaping those texts and thereby the expectations
of other visitors?
What is the role of tour guides, people, as well as oral and written
texts, in shaping the experience of the journey and destination?
How is the identity of these travellers and local people influenced by
this literature?
What role do these various texts play in helping people shift between
secular and religious forms of pilgrimage?
The conference is addressed to:
The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and students
working on various types of tourism – heritage, cultural, religious –
and forms of travel relating to different types of pilgrimage, as well
as practitioners involved in the associated sectors of the tourism
industry (travel agents, tour operators, hoteliers, tour guides).
Language:
The language of the conference will be English.
Proposed duration and format (depending on participation):
A two-day conference, with keynote addresses, followed by paper
presentations and discussion.
For information concerning the programme, location, venue,
registration fees, please visit:
http://www.emat.ac.cy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50:international-conference-on-religious-travel-and-tourism&catid=8
For online registration please follow the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdOVVVuZi1ibzRNejJZTUg1YWVkYUE6MQ#gid=0
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