<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Either due to religious and spiritual motivations or to personal ones, religious pilgrimages have become increasingly popular during the last decades. The article proposes a study concerning the motivations of pilgrims who travel to Iasi every year in October to attend a religious event organized in the city. The main goal of this paper is to present the results of the research concerning the main travel motivations of pilgrims. The issue is whether their socio-demographic profile influences their travel motivations and the extent to which pilgrims’ satisfaction is determined by the travel motivations they declare. This is quantitative research which uses a questionnaire survey, based on the data provided by 441 respondents. The results are important for the scholars in religious tourism and for destination managers who use this kind of data to improve their planning and organisational activities of such events.</p></abstract>

Either due to religious and spiritual motivations or to personal ones, religious pilgrimages have become increasingly popular during the last decades. The article proposes a study concerning the motivations of pilgrims who travel to Iasi every year in October to attend a religious event organized in the city. The main goal of this paper is to present the results of the research concerning the main travel motivations of pilgrims. The issue is whether their socio-demographic profile influences their travel motivations and the extent to which pilgrims’ satisfaction is determined by the travel motivations they declare. This is quantitative research which uses a questionnaire survey, based on the data provided by 441 respondents. The results are important for the scholars in religious tourism and for destination managers who use this kind of data to improve their planning and organisational activities of such events.

Pilgrims’ Motivation for Travelling to the Iasi Feast

Department of the Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Department of Economics and International Business, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Czech Journal of Tourism

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Either due to religious and spiritual motivations or to personal ones, religious pilgrimages have become increasingly popular during the last decades. The...

Pilgrims’ Motivation for Travelling to the Iasi Feast

Article Category: Notes

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 157 - 175

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cjot-2019-0010

Keywords
pilgrim, pilgrim’s motivation, religious tourism, socio-demographic profile, satisfaction, Iasi Feast

© 2019 Maria Tatarusanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Pilgrims’ Motivation for Travelling to the Iasi Feast

Article Category: Notes

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 157 - 175

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cjot-2019-0010

Keywordspilgrim, pilgrim’s motivation, religious tourism, socio-demographic profile, satisfaction, Iasi Feast

© 2019 Maria Tatarusanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
pilgrim, pilgrim’s motivation, religious tourism, socio-demographic profile, satisfaction, Iasi Feast