Location
Palermo
Start Date
27-6-2025 9:30 AM
End Date
27-6-2025 11:00 AM
Description
The concept for developing faith-based visitor experiences has emanated from the principles of community-based tourism, first researched by Peter Murphy (1986). Since 1958, these islands have attracted visitors for sun and sea holidays, normally at the peak between June and September, although there have been attempts over the past twenty years to offer opportunities during the “shoulder” months. The type of visitor during the “shoulder” months has varied from the MICE business visitor to the visitor coming to these islands to attend some concert or theatre presentation. Some visitors have been interested in the culture and heritage, although this is certainly a far cry from the visitor who, in pre-Second World War Days, chose the islands for their winter attractiveness - a mild weather pattern and opportunities to walk around what was then a more rustic and rural environment.
Today if we need to attract persons for specific reasons we need to ensure that we adopt the principles of the Integrated Approach to tourism planning (Zarb, 2017) where we should create a charter for the Protection of our culture, heritage and character and restrain the infrastructural development that is taking over the islands and allowing this vast inflow of motor vehicles, the erratic construction of apartment blocks that have no character or local culture and the eradication of rural land to allow wider and unnecessary roads. Faith-based visitor experiences mean that the focus is not just on the edifices and interior design and history of our churches or Christian heritage but more about the ethnographic stories retold by the resident community. The three key stakeholders for this integrated approach to tourism planning will be the Church Administration and Authorities, the Local Resident Community and the visitor. There were eight parishes that have been selected in this first phase of the project.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/05wh-wn89
Included in
H4) Developing Faith Based Visitation for Malta A Pilot Project for a Quality Tourism Experience
Palermo
The concept for developing faith-based visitor experiences has emanated from the principles of community-based tourism, first researched by Peter Murphy (1986). Since 1958, these islands have attracted visitors for sun and sea holidays, normally at the peak between June and September, although there have been attempts over the past twenty years to offer opportunities during the “shoulder” months. The type of visitor during the “shoulder” months has varied from the MICE business visitor to the visitor coming to these islands to attend some concert or theatre presentation. Some visitors have been interested in the culture and heritage, although this is certainly a far cry from the visitor who, in pre-Second World War Days, chose the islands for their winter attractiveness - a mild weather pattern and opportunities to walk around what was then a more rustic and rural environment.
Today if we need to attract persons for specific reasons we need to ensure that we adopt the principles of the Integrated Approach to tourism planning (Zarb, 2017) where we should create a charter for the Protection of our culture, heritage and character and restrain the infrastructural development that is taking over the islands and allowing this vast inflow of motor vehicles, the erratic construction of apartment blocks that have no character or local culture and the eradication of rural land to allow wider and unnecessary roads. Faith-based visitor experiences mean that the focus is not just on the edifices and interior design and history of our churches or Christian heritage but more about the ethnographic stories retold by the resident community. The three key stakeholders for this integrated approach to tourism planning will be the Church Administration and Authorities, the Local Resident Community and the visitor. There were eight parishes that have been selected in this first phase of the project.