MANAGING THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE ON ROMANIAN RELIGIOUS SITES: MONASTERIES ABBOTS’ PERCEPTIONS
MANAGING THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE ON ROMANIAN RELIGIOUS SITES: MONASTERIES ABBOTS’ PERCEPTIONS
Author(s): Alexandru Chiş, Gabriela Cecilia Stănciulescu, Mihai Florin Băcilă, Alexandra Maria Drule (Ţîrcă)Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: visitor experience; religious tourism; religious site management; Romanian monasteries
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Management & Marketing - Craiova
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 1s
- Page Range: 5-16
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English