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    Man has traveled since ancient times, initially for food and shelter but now for various reasons like adventure, hobbies, relaxation, and pilgrimages. Travel and tourism have become important industries in human life. While religion and tourism are often positively linked through pilgrimages, there are questions around whether this is always positive. Fundamentalist views in religions can influence tourism. This document will examine the influence of religion on tourism, focusing on how host societies perceive tourists' behavior in relation to their own religious convictions, comparing utterances between religions, and considering theoretical views. It will follow a grounded theory methodology to generate theories from collected data on this topic from various sources.

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    Man has traveled since ancient times, initially for food and shelter but now for various reasons like adventure, hobbies, relaxation, and pilgrimages. Travel and tourism have become important industries in human life. While religion and tourism are often positively linked through pilgrimages, there are questions around whether this is always positive. Fundamentalist views in religions can influence tourism. This document will examine the influence of religion on tourism, focusing on how host societies perceive tourists' behavior in relation to their own religious convictions, comparing utterances between religions, and considering theoretical views. It will follow a grounded theory methodology to generate theories from collected data on this topic from various sources.

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    Man has traveled since ancient times, initially for food and shelter but now for various reasons like adventure, hobbies, relaxation, and pilgrimages. Travel and tourism have become important industries in human life. While religion and tourism are often positively linked through pilgrimages, there are questions around whether this is always positive. Fundamentalist views in religions can influence tourism. This document will examine the influence of religion on tourism, focusing on how host societies perceive tourists' behavior in relation to their own religious convictions, comparing utterances between religions, and considering theoretical views. It will follow a grounded theory methodology to generate theories from collected data on this topic from various sources.

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    Man as a traveller is known since time immemorial.

    Initially their travel was for the quest


    of food followed by shelter. Generally with the passage of time their travel turned to
    several new dimensions-travel as an adventure, travel as hobby, for relaxation, to enjoy
    natural beauty, as a pilgrimage, to acquire knowledge on historical aspects and
    archaeological sites. Travel sometimes is associated with adventure and sometimes for
    religious purpose by visiting pilgrimages or by taking holy dip. All these are to quench the
    thirst of mind. Thus, travel or tour has a very important position in human life and
    ultimately tourism that is movement of people within their own country or across the
    national border became one of the largest and gainful industries in the economic domain
    of human life
    Usually people do have positive feelings while discussing the relationship between
    tourism and religion; they refer than to pilgrimages, Santiago the Compostella, Mecca, or
    a visit to the Notre-Dame in Paris. The question is whether it is all sunshine in this regard.
    Do we feel comfortable in a community where the
    Sunday observance is (still) valid, or do we enjoy our holidays while the media speak
    about the threat of
    terrorist attacks (between the lines linking these to Muslim fundamentalists)?
    Therefore, it is worthwhile to search for the influence of religion on tourism, mainly for
    the influence of
    fundamentalist utterances of the various religions on tourism.
    THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION
    Searching for the origin of religion it seems to be that non-humans e.g. chimpanzees
    and bonobos
    and elephants - do exhibit some traits that would have been necessary for the evolution
    of religion (King, 2007),
    while Bekoff (2009) argues that many species grieve death and loss.The earliest
    evidence of religious thought is
    based on the ritual treatment of the dead. The earliest known burial of modern humans is
    from a cave in Israel
    located at Qafzeh. Human remains have been dated to 100,000 years ago.
    Insights from a totally different perspective are given by the neurobiologist Swaab
    (2010). He says a primal
    feeling is hidden in the human brain which makes people religious. According to him the
    amount of
    spirituality is determined on genetic base at least for 50%.
    PROBLEM STATEMENT AND METHODOLOGY
    As stated before, we will focus on (possibly) uneasy influence of religion on tourism, in
    terms of
    (possibly) unwanted or unacceptable behaviour of tourists, unacceptable from the host
    (society) point of view.
    This point of view is dictated by religious convictions. It might be that sources referred to
    are not explicit with regard to the motives of the host (society).
    The problem statement consists of the following questions:
    (1) How do hosts and host societies perceive tourists behaviour while relating their
    perception to religious
    (or cultural) convictions?
    (2) Which differences and similarities can be found between (fundamentalist) utterances
    of various
    religions,
    (3) Which theoretical views can be found in this regard?
    The sources which have been consulted are: literature, papers, documents, newspapers,
    TV programmes,
    Internet, and other (social) media, including correspondence through social media.
    While searching for similarities and differences between religions with regard to their
    influence on tourism we
    follow the methodology of the grounded theory in order to generate theory from data
    (Glaser and Strauss, 1967).

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