Christian Tourism to the Holy Land: Pilgrimage during Security Crisis

The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world. Defined as a journey resulting from religious causes, it not only results in a spiritual experience, but also one of new environments, cultures and peoples, and is often undertaken as a guided tour. Yet pilgrimage as a mode of tourism has hardly been investigated. This books does so, focussing on one specific pilgrimage voyage - that to the Holy Land during times of security crisis there. In doing so, it examines this tourism journey in relation to constraints and high levels of risk involved by the pilgrims. It explores both the behavioural aspects of undertaking pilgrimage to such an insecure situation and the impacts of such crisis on the host tourism infrastructure and industry. It therefore not only provides insights into pilgrimage as tourism and into this particular country's experience, but also offers an integrative approach to tourism crisis management.