DOPRINOS KATOLIČKE CRKVE U RAZVOJU VJERSKOGA TURIZMA I NJEGOVE IMPLEMENTACIJE U SVEUKUPNU TURISTIČKU PONUDU
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS TOURISM AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION INTO THE OVERALL TOURIST OFFER

Summary/Abstract: Faith has always been an important part of human civilization and has greatly determined its ways and accomplishments. In terms of tourism, one of the oldest motifs for travel was precisely faith. The development of technology, especially transport, enabled a greater number of people to travel. The characteristics of pilgrimage and what accompanies pilgrimage has led to the development of a new phenomenon of economy called tourism. Despite the huge developments in technics, technology, science, as well as in the general progress of humanity that has fundamentally changed the way people live, the ancient religious motives for travel have remained for a large number of people and such travels have found their place in the complex mechanism of tourist migration, as a special interest of tourism called religious tourism. Croatia, as a country rich in historically and artistically extremely valuable religious objects and already well-visited shrines, and as a predominantly Christian country, has great potential for further development of religious tourism. However, due to a number of political-ideological and unscientific reasons there is no scientific and objective analysis of the development of religious tourism in Croatia.

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