The importance of religious tourism segmentation for tourism destination management: the case of the island of S. Miguel, Azores

Santos, Carlos; Ambrósio, Vítor; Correia, Antónia; Peres, Rita

doi:10.1504/wremsd.2013.052357

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“…Additionally, Canoves and Forga [20] interpreted a group as cultural, recreational, and leisure seekers. The "Passive tourist" segment is likened to the religious tourists identified by Santos et al [40]. Regarding the "Religious" segment, this is similar to the Muslim-Sufis found by Zoda and Zoda [39] and to the spiritual tourists and religious tourists identified by Santos et al [40].…”

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“…In the western part of the world, it is ascertained that the segmentation of religious tourism is important. Santos et al [40] studied the visit of tourists to São Miguel Island in the Azores, Portugal, during religious festivities that take place five weeks after Easter. They identified three main segments of tourists: (1) the spiritual tourists, (2) the religious tourists, and (3) the moderately religious tourists.…”

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Segmentation of Religious Tourism by Motivations: A Study of the Pilgrimage to the City of Mecca

Hassan

Carvache‐Franco

et al. 2022

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The present study about the pilgrimage to Mecca aims to: (i) identify the motivational dimensions of the demand for religious tourism, (ii) determine the segments of the demand for religious tourism, (iii) establish the relationship between the segments and socio-demographic aspects, and (iv) establish the relationship between tourist segments and their satisfaction and loyalty in the religious tourism destination of Mecca. The research was carried out on pilgrims who had visited Mecca who lived in Bahrain, a country located on the Persian Gulf, where most of its population is Muslim. The sample consisted of 350 surveys obtained online. A factor and K-means clusters analysis were used to reduce and group the data. The results show three motivational dimensions: religious, social and cultural, and shopping. Additionally, there were also three segments of demand: the “Multiple motives,” with high scores in all the motivational variables, the “Passive tourists” with low levels of motivation and the “Religious,” with motivations in variables related to religion. The “Multiple motives” and the “Religious” segments had high satisfaction and loyalty levels. The results will serve as guides for the management of religious destinations and contribute to the academic literature on this subject.

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Segmentation of Religious Tourism by Motivations: A Study of the Pilgrimage to the City of Mecca

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Carvache‐Franco

et al. 2022

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“…The relevance of tourism in Portugal has justified the proliferation of applied research focusing the Portuguese reality addressing several issues such as the impacts of specific events (Andraz and Rodrigues, 2010;Ribeiro et al, 2004), innovation in tourism (Leitão, 2006;Meneses and Teixeira, 2011), competitiveness (Estevão and Ferreira, 2012), tourism destinations (Corfu et al, 2006;Oliveira et al, 2014;Santos et al, 2013), tourism industry (Correia et al, 2012;Serrasqueiro and Nunes, 2014), tourism demand (Barros et al, 2010;Correia et al, 2015;Daniel and Rodrigues, 2011;Mello and Fortuna, 2005;Ramos and Rodrigues, 2013), environment (Pintassilgo and Silva, 2007), or forecasting analysis (Andraz et al, 2009). However, a reduced number of studies reports estimates of tourism's economic impacts at the national level or regional level (see, e.g.…”

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Do tourism spillovers matter in regional economic analysis? An application to Portugal

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This study estimates tourism’s effects on economic performance at the national and regional levels, accounting explicitly for the existence of regional spillovers. The results suggest that there are important regional spillover effects on output, employment, and investment, respectively, and regions benefit differently from tourism located in the region and tourism located elsewhere in the country. The geographical pattern that emerges from the results is that the direct effects are more important in the central regions, while spillovers are more important in the northern and southern regions, the latter being one of the most important touristic regions in the country.

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“…Pilgrimage tourism is an important legacy to be preserved and developed because it has historical, artistic, architectural and cultural values. Therefore, pilgrimage as one of the basic and oldest population mobility in human life has implications for the economic, political, social and cultural sectors (Aukland, 2017;Costa et al, 2018;Jawabreh, 2017;Mundt, 2016;Nouri Kouchi et al, 2018;Radisavljevi, 2014;Santos et al, 2013;Subianto & Kurniawan, 2021;Takdir Ilahi, 2016; In the span of history, one form of movement that still exists today and in almost all parts of the Islamic world is traditionalism. Traditionalism emerged on the basis of a desire to preserve Islamic teachings based on the Qur'an and al-Sunnah, and traditionalism developed in the Middle East to Indonesia.…”

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The Role of Institutional Design and Enabling Environmental: Collaborative Governance of a Pilgrimage Tourism, Indonesia

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Subianto

Tamrin

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This article discusses the role of stakeholders from the descendants of Kings, who collaborated with the government and private sectors in managing of the pilgrimage tourism heritage site of the tomb of the Kings of Asta Tinggi, in Sumenep district. The purpose of this study was to investigate the various factors that influence stakeholder collaborations in the management of sustainable pilgrimage tourism and which stakeholder groups have a sustained traditional of authority. This qualitative research uses a case study approach and data collection through in-depth unstructured interviews and observations. This study seeks to take a new perspective in the analysis of the collaborative governance theory in the face of the social environment factor. The study results show that stakeholders, facilitative leadership, and enabling environmental factors become resources and strengths in the success of collaborative governance even though the role of private and government sectors are still limited. The findings reveal that stakeholders from the community, namely the traditional group as a companion of pilgrims, have an important role in collaboration, because they can only be replaced by the descendants, while the collaborative initiation comes from the community. We suggest the importance of government initiation to expand collaboration networks and facilitate the formation of the institutional administrator of Asta Tinggi site, through reconciliation which represents two descendants of Kings. The findings of this study are expected to enrich the theory of collaborative governance.

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The importance of religious tourism segmentation for tourism destination management: the case of the island of S. Miguel, Azores

Cited by 7 publications

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Segmentation of Religious Tourism by Motivations: A Study of the Pilgrimage to the City of Mecca

Segmentation of Religious Tourism by Motivations: A Study of the Pilgrimage to the City of Mecca

Do tourism spillovers matter in regional economic analysis? An application to Portugal

The Role of Institutional Design and Enabling Environmental: Collaborative Governance of a Pilgrimage Tourism, Indonesia

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