MANAGING THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE ON ROMANIAN RELIGIOUS SITES: MONASTERIES ABBOTS’ PERCEPTIONS

For thousands of years, people have been travelling to places considered sacred to meet or to worship Divinity. Religion-motivated tourism is extremely important in many parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of the religious tourism experience for a religion considere...

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Published inManagement & marketing (Craiova, Romania) Vol. VIII; no. 1s; pp. 5 - 16
Main Authors Chiş, Alexandru, Stănciulescu, Gabriela Cecilia, Băcilă, Mihai Florin, Drule (Ţîrcă), Alexandra Maria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Editura Universitaria Craiova 2010
Universitaria Press Craiova
Subjects
Economy
religious site management
religious tourism
Romanian monasteries
visitor experience
Romanian monasteries
religious tourism
visitor experience
religious site management
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Summary:For thousands of years, people have been travelling to places considered sacred to meet or to worship Divinity. Religion-motivated tourism is extremely important in many parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of the religious tourism experience for a religion considered to be conservative and traditionalist in relation to other denominations. In order to achieve this end we distinguish the behavioural characteristics and motivations of the religious sites’ visitors through the abbots’ gaze. The research method of this study is a questionnaire based survey among more than one hundred monasteries’ superiors from different regions of Romania, places known as “holy or sacred” destinations for the Romanian religious people.
ISSN:1841-2416