The Importance of Religious Tourism for Development of Sustainable Tourism: The Case of the Baptism Site in Jordan

Abstract

Aim: The study aims to investigate and find the importance of religious tourism for the development of sustainable tourism: the case of the baptism site in Jordan. Materials and Methods: We used the SPSS version 20 to analyze 19 items of the Likert scale for the outcome in factor analysis. Before conducting the axial variable analysis, the suitability of the data for factor analysis was evaluated. Results and discussions: traditional industries have been phased out and replaced by tourism activities at the Baptism Site, which have a high tourist potential, resulting in increased economic growth in these areas. Conclusions: On the eastern bank of the Jordan River separating Jordan and Palestine, at the Baptism site, a world archaeological and heritage site, sustainable tourism has become a tool on which many foreign tourism institutions are focused. The result shows that environmental impacts were positively associated with sustainability issues.

Management of Religious Tourism in the Baptism Site Jordan-South Levant

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The Role of Institutional Design and Enabling Environmental: Collaborative Governance of a Pilgrimage Tourism, Indonesia

“…Pilgrimage tourism is an important legacy to be preserved and developed because it has historical, artistic, architectural and cultural values. Therefore, pilgrimage as one of the basic and oldest population mobility in human life has implications for the economic, political, social and cultural sectors (Aukland, 2017;Costa et al, 2018;Jawabreh, 2017;Mundt, 2016;Nouri Kouchi et al, 2018;Radisavljevi, 2014;Santos et al, 2013;Subianto & Kurniawan, 2021;Takdir Ilahi, 2016; In the span of history, one form of movement that still exists today and in almost all parts of the Islamic world is traditionalism. Traditionalism emerged on the basis of a desire to preserve Islamic teachings based on the Qur'an and al-Sunnah, and traditionalism developed in the Middle East to Indonesia.…”