Location
1A - Motivation and Experience
Start Date
29-6-2017 9:30 AM
End Date
29-6-2017 11:00 AM
Description
Religious tourism in Portugal is extremely rich and integrates a variety of religious festivities, sacred heritage, Jewish legacy, organized and well known routes and famous religious shrines throughout the country. The Nossa Senhora da Lapa Shrine can be distinguished, since it is one of the oldest sacred sites in Europe. According to Raj and Griffin (2015) in the current literature there is relatively limited research exploring the understanding and motivation of religious tourists’ patterns of visitation to sacred sites. Thus, the current study intends to identify what motivates people to visit sacred sites and why visitors choose to visit the Lapa Shrine. For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed and applied to the visitors of the Lapa Shrine. A total of 250 responses were obtained. The results reveal that the most important factors when visiting a Shrine are the existent monuments, cleanliness, the existence of museums and exhibition rooms and the religious festivities that occur there.
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Motivations for visiting sacred sites: the case of Senhora da Lapa Schrine
1A - Motivation and Experience
Religious tourism in Portugal is extremely rich and integrates a variety of religious festivities, sacred heritage, Jewish legacy, organized and well known routes and famous religious shrines throughout the country. The Nossa Senhora da Lapa Shrine can be distinguished, since it is one of the oldest sacred sites in Europe. According to Raj and Griffin (2015) in the current literature there is relatively limited research exploring the understanding and motivation of religious tourists’ patterns of visitation to sacred sites. Thus, the current study intends to identify what motivates people to visit sacred sites and why visitors choose to visit the Lapa Shrine. For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed and applied to the visitors of the Lapa Shrine. A total of 250 responses were obtained. The results reveal that the most important factors when visiting a Shrine are the existent monuments, cleanliness, the existence of museums and exhibition rooms and the religious festivities that occur there.