Religious Events as Special Interest Tourism. A Spanish Experience

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"This paper contributes to the development of the theoretical understanding in the field ofreligious tourism management by considering the Pilgrimage of the Dew as an alternative paradigm ofanalysis, which has been constituted in a destination able to host a very large number of travellers (pilgrims),in a very short period of time (3 days), without damaging the environment, ecologic and social,due to the own anthropologic characteristics of this form of travelling that gives priority to the humanexperience more than the market consumption. Thus, the model researched in this paper through theconcept of “social capital” is opportune due to the confluence in the analysis of different social sciences(anthropology, economy and sociology) and from the theory and technique of tourism, concluding thatthe maintenance of the authenticity and sustainability of this form of religious tourism should be plannednot on the basis of a real state model as currently, but on the unseasonality and a much better and regulatedquality of the services provided"