Location
3A - Case Studies
Start Date
29-6-2017 11:30 AM
End Date
29-6-2017 1:00 PM
Description
The article focuses on the Azorean diaspora in North America in historic and cultural terms. The analysis of official tourist reports and inquiries, newspaper articles and Online sources allow us to perceive which generations preserve the religious factor as pivotal for the attendance of the events, and which one/s already reveal shifting trends.
Religion is still an important element to summon the Azorean diaspora spread across the USA. The Ecce Homo procession is celebrated in towns like Fall River (Massachusetts) and Half Moon Bay (California), although Ponta Delgada (São Miguel island) still remains the devotional core – the former and the latter have been sister cities for decades. Also the Holy Ghost festival is pivotal both in Fall River and across Terceira island (Leal, 2005).
Observation shows that while the older generations maintain their religious and emotional bonds to the family core in the Azores, the younger ones present a different tourist behaviour in terms of travel and accommodation patterns (ORT/CESTUR, 2009).
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Religious Tourism & The Azorean Diaspora in the USA
3A - Case Studies
The article focuses on the Azorean diaspora in North America in historic and cultural terms. The analysis of official tourist reports and inquiries, newspaper articles and Online sources allow us to perceive which generations preserve the religious factor as pivotal for the attendance of the events, and which one/s already reveal shifting trends.
Religion is still an important element to summon the Azorean diaspora spread across the USA. The Ecce Homo procession is celebrated in towns like Fall River (Massachusetts) and Half Moon Bay (California), although Ponta Delgada (São Miguel island) still remains the devotional core – the former and the latter have been sister cities for decades. Also the Holy Ghost festival is pivotal both in Fall River and across Terceira island (Leal, 2005).
Observation shows that while the older generations maintain their religious and emotional bonds to the family core in the Azores, the younger ones present a different tourist behaviour in terms of travel and accommodation patterns (ORT/CESTUR, 2009).