Key players of tourism in western religious sites: the example of Fátima

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Gonçalo Maria Bacelar De Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/114711
• topic: Religious tourism; Religious sites; Fátima; Tourism key players; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

This paper emerges from the raised paradox regarding secularization and the growth of tourism in religious sites of the Western World. From the evidence of secularization in modern societies, the paper approaches the dichotomy by evaluating the tourism’s positive trend in a particular religious destination, following a two phased structure. First, evaluates the determinants considered by academics as impactful for tourism in this type of destinations and segments it into key players. Secondly, particularizes to the religious site of Fátima and critically analyses if the city’s keys players are acting in accordance to what is presented as beneficial to tourism, in order to understand the tourism trend exhibited in that specific destination. Through this process, the paper was able to establish that the designated key players (Tourists, Church, Government, Hospitality) were, in the most part, proceeding with the measures and attitudes considered positively influential for tourism, being presented here as a reason to explain the existing paradox in Fátima.