New Trends in Religious Tourism

The study presents the latest trends visible in religious tourism in the world over the last decade. These include, most of all, the renaissance of medieval pilgrimage routes and walking pilgrimage, the popularity of the so-called "holidays" in monasteries and hermitages, the rising interest in traveling to the centers, where the Misteries of the Passion and solemnities are presented. The study presents also forms and volume of the pilgrimage and tourist movement to the most important European pilgrimage centers in 2000-2011. This analysis has shown the steady growth in the popularity of the journeys undertaken for religious and religious-cognitive motives in the world.

FRANCISZEK MRÓZ