Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Hatem El-Gohary, David John Edwards, Riyad Eid
Release Date: December, 2017|Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 236
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2796-1
ISBN13: 9781522527961|ISBN10: 1522527966|EISBN13: 9781522527978
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Description:

Religious studies and research has gained a lot of interest and considerable attention from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners during the last few years. Though interest has increased, religious tourism is vastly underrepresented in modern research and not much is known on the subject’s presence in most countries.

Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage provides emerging research on religious tourism, the cultural impact of religion, and religiosity’s impact on new market products. Highlighting the prevalence of religiosity, readers will learn tourism’s impact on the world economy and the growing research in religious tourism, this book is an important resource for academic societies, entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers, and educators.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Destinations
  • International Perspectives of Religious Tourism
  • Pilgrimage
  • Religious Tourism
  • Religious Tourism Challenges & Opportunities
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Editor/Author Biographies
Hatem El-Gohary is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Marketing (IJOM), Associate Editor of International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management (IJCRMM) and the UK Director for the Institute for Research on Global Business (IRGB - UK). Professor El-Gohary has more than 23 years of experience in academia, worked as the marketing director of a multinational company as well as a marketing consultant for a number of national and multinational companies. Professor El-Gohary research interest include: Electronic Marketing, Electronic Business, Electronic Commerce, Internet Marketing and Small Business Enterprises. He has published several articles and book chapters and presented several research papers in various international conferences. Professor El-Gohary holds a PhD, MSc, MRes, PGDip, BSc as well as PGCHE. He is also a Certified E-Marketer (CeM), Certified Social Marketing Associate (CSMA), an AABPP Fellow, HEA Fellow, CIM member (MCIM), Chartered Marketer, CMI Fellow and has a significant record of experience in voluntary work in Egypt and the UK. With regards to awards and honours Dr. El-Gohary won: ISBE 2014 Best Paper Award, The Routledge Best Paper Award 2007, The American Academy of Business and Public Policy Best Paper Award 2009, The Birmingham City University Business School Best Paper Award 2011, the Ideal Student for Cairo University Award 1992, the Ideal Student for Cairo University Business School Award (twice for the years 1991 and 1992) as well as The SLED Best New Mentor Award 2007. Moreover, he has been awarded an Honorary Life Membership in UBU.
Riyad Eid is Professor of Marketing at the United Arab Emirates University. Professor Eid received a BSc (Hons) in Business administration from Tanta University (Egypt), an MSc in Business Administration from Tanta University (Egypt), PGDip (2002) and a PhD in Marketing from Bradford University (UK). Prior to the UAEU appointment, he was an Assistant Professor at the Marketing Department, Bradford University- UK, and an Associate Professor at the Marketing Department; Wolverhampton University- UK. Dr Eid’s main area of marketing expertise and interest is in the domain of International Internet Marketing. Professor Eid has published in several internationally recognised journals such as Journal of International Marketing, The Service Industries Journal, Journal of Euro-Marketing, Journal of marketing Intelligence and Planning, Journal of Industrial Management & Data Systems, Benchmarking International Journal, The International Journal of E-Business Research and [Journal of] Internet Research. He has also attended numerous numbers of International Refereed Conferences worldwide. Dr Eid acted as consultant to a number of organizations in Egypt, UAE and UK. He is a subject Matter Expert (Marketing) for the E-TQM collage in Dubai (UAE) and Umm AL-Qura University in Saudi Arabia. Dr Eid was presented with Emerald Best Paper Award for one of his publications. He is also the editor in chief of the International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management and a member of the Editorial Review Board for a number of international journals.
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