From religious tourism to nostalgic pilgrimages. Reflections from Mexico

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-05-14 DOI:10.1080/14766825.2022.2073826

Ilia Alvarado-Sizzo, C. Mínguez

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Abstract

ABSTRACT By exploring the origin, motivation, and behaviour of visitors to the Saint Francis celebration in Real de Catorce (Mexico), this article exposes the link between religious tourism and nostalgic tourism in the case of regional migrants. The methodology was designed to use triangulation of three methods: questionnaires, informal conversational interviews, and direct observation. The results reveal that the celebration has strong family-tradition content. In this pilgrimage, religious faith coexists with longing and the search for identity. Religious tourism blends with nostalgic tourism. This becomes evident in the responses about travel motives and also in the origin of the journey, the frequency of the visits, and the kind of activities in which visitors engage. The visitors tend to come from the main destinations of past migrants from Real de Catorce. For them, a religious festival is a good excuse to embark on a recreational tour legitimated by the idea of family union and devotional obligations. By travelling to the festival, devotees comply with religious obligations, connect with family origins and enjoy recreation. This innovative study of religious and return tourism on a relatively regional scale shows that nostalgia is not associated exclusively with international migration.

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从宗教旅游到怀旧朝圣。来自墨西哥的思考

摘要:本文通过对墨西哥雷亚德卡托尔斯圣方济庆祝活动游客的起源、动机和行为的探讨，揭示了在地区移民的情况下，宗教旅游和怀旧旅游之间的联系。本研究采用问卷调查、非正式谈话访谈和直接观察三种三角测量方法。结果显示，庆祝活动有很强的家庭传统内容。在这次朝圣中，宗教信仰与渴望和对身份的追寻并存。宗教旅游与怀旧旅游相结合。这在关于旅行动机、旅行起源、访问频率和游客参与的活动类型的回答中表现得很明显。游客往往来自过去来自皇家德卡托斯的移民的主要目的地。对他们来说，一个宗教节日是一个很好的借口，可以开始一次合法的娱乐之旅，因为家庭团聚和虔诚的义务。通过前往节日，信徒遵守宗教义务，与家庭起源联系，享受娱乐。这项在相对区域范围内对宗教和返乡旅游进行的创新研究表明，怀旧并不完全与国际移民有关。

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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives