Religious Tourism and Accessibility

Abstract

This chapter presents a study of religious tourism that analyzes accessibility in two cathedrals with a great number of tourist visits. The comparison is made from universal accessibility, although specifically the motor one, sensory one, and technological access of information in both resources. The geographical area of the study has been in Spain in the Cathedral of Barcelona located in the peninsula and in the Cathedral of Palma of Majorca located in an archipelago. The longitudinal study carried out shows the comparison of the information collected in the year 2014 and July 2017. In general, the results show that throughout these years, while the Cathedral of Palma of Majorca has adapted the tourist resource to tourists with disabilities, the Cathedral of Barcelona has been evolving, although there are still measures and adaptations pending to run to approach an accessible tourism.