Impact Of IT And Other Technologies To Religious Tourism
Impact Of IT And Other Technologies To Religious Tourism

Summary/Abstract: If we consider the impact of IT on religious tourism, we must notice a causal link between them. The spread of IT and Internet communications networks influenced the development of religious tourism. In the preceding study and research the development of information technology, and the consequences it introduced to the business of pilgrim organizations and agencies. In addition, we will try to consider the positive impacts of IT on travel agents, tour operators, and tourists themselves as part of tourism as a whole. Tourism has proven to be extremely flexible to adopt new information technologies to their own development, which is determined by supply and quality of information exchange. As an excellent growing sector of the economy in the field of information, tourism in general is going through rapid and radical contemporary changes. The technology facilitates the speed and efficiency with which information is processed or stored, transmitted and distributed, and how to manipulate it further. IT can reduce operating costs and information services, to increase the speed of their transmission, as well as feedback, but also to increase the participation of the beneficiaries. In order to improve its offer, pilgrimage organizations need to follow these trends in the information technologies, particularly those applied to other types of tourism.

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