Christian Tourism to the Holy Land

Dr Yoel Mansfeld, Dr Noga Collins-Kreiner, Professor Nurit Kliot and Mrs Keren Sagi are all faculty members of the Department of Geography, University of Haifa, Israel. Dr Yoel Mansfeld is also the Head of the Center for Tourism, Pilgrimage & Recreation Research at the University of Haifa, Israel.

• Contents: Pilgrimage: global patterns and the pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Anatomy of Israeli tourism crisis; Research design, methodology and sample; The behavioural aspects of the sacred journey: the inner world of religious tourists at a time of security crisis; Attitudes, images and perception of Israel and the Holy Land: between the sacred and the profane; The sacred landscape: pilgrimage geography, experience, perception and behaviour in the Christian Terra Scanta; Discussion and concluding comments; Mirroring on a pilgrimage tourism crisis: from anatomy to integrated crisis-management approach; References; Supplements; Index.

’This excellently written book is essential reading for tourism scholars and practitioners who are interested in the exploding domain of religious tourism and pilgrimages to sacred places. Though it concentrates on the country of Israel, the lessons learned from it could be applied to other religious tourist destinations around the world. When reading it one wonders why a book like this hasn't been done before.’ Abraham Pizam, University of Central Florida, USA