Religious Tourism as a Sociocultural Phenomenon of the Present “The Unique Sense Today is a Universal Value Tomorrow. This is the Way Religions are Created and Values are Made.”
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Religious tourism has such an important socio-cultural characteristic, as a social practice, changing man and positioning him in a social space. Hence religious tourism owns a kind of socio-cultural potential of influencing the motivational state of a person, which has the need of cultural and religious objects required for the spiritually ideological existence. Specificity of value consciousness of the modern person, as well as the characteristics of social, cultural and economic status of various social groups define a variety of tourist motives, which have significant influence on the choice of tourist activity of specific identity. At the present stage all kinds of tourism, including religious kinds develop in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The President of the country has allocated tourism among the seven priority clusters, development of the domestic economy, so the tourism has received a new impulse to improvement. Anyway the religious-tourist potential of our country is used not fully today. The process of creation of conditions for qualitative and competitive religious tourism on the territory of Kazakhstan for our compatriots and foreign citizens requires more balanced long-term state policy on all tourist market. Thus, high revenue from tourism can become a major budgetary factor and make it more profitable branch of economic activity, than even the traditional exports of oil or gas. Considering the above, it can be argued that in the conditions of expansion of innovative trends in the domestic economy of tourism in the near future it will be able to enter the international market with its unique religious tourist products.
Institution: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Language: English
Topic: Religious Tourism and Spaces
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2052894582