Pilgrimages as a Factor of Sustainable Development
Authors:
Krzysztof
Kowalik
Opole University of Technology, Poland
Jakub
Bartoszewski
State University of Applied Sciences – Konin, Poland
Jolanta
Laniecka
State University of Applied Sciences – Konin, Poland
Pankojini
Mulia
Rajendra University – Balangir, India
Peter
Papso
St. Elisabeth University of Health Care and Social Work – Bratislava, Slovakia
Peter
Jusko
Matej Bel University – Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Pages:
216-
225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/NACG7068
Abstract:
The article attempts to analyze and valorize pilgrimage as a useful ally of the principle of sustainable development. By diluting its original meaning, the latter often remains a principle only on paper. Initially emphasizing the inclination to comply with sustainable development, tourism has proved to be a significant threat to integrating the natural and social environment. A pilgrimage, due to its motivation and embedding in transcendence, evades being simply reduced to only one of the types of tourism (religious tourism, pilgrimage tourism). It seems to fulfill the demands of sustainable development in a more determined and promising way not only by caring for the environment and culture, but above all by being restrained towards material goods (hiking, everyday necessities).
Keywords:
sustainable development; sustainable tourism; religious tourism; pilgrimage; spirituality; ecology; economy; social environment.
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