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2. LITERATURE REVIEW

Upcoming literature review is about the selected research paper which deals with
Eco-tourism, religious tourism etc. from various branches (Tourism, commerce,

Management, etc.), which highlights the important points (Needed for this report)

from those papers and the conclusion part will be the analysis of those research
papers.
Thesis Report V-SPARC VIT

2.1. Pilgrimage tourism

According to Pilgrimage Statistics, (2019), around 140 million pilgrims travelled

(year 2019) to 32 Religious destinations. 300 to 330 million tourists visit key sites
every year and approximately 600 million inbound and outbound religious tourists

are visiting every year. Out of which 40% of them are taking place in Europe

(UNWTO, 2014; Pilgrims, 2019). Religious tourism is playing a key role in tourism.

Pilgrimage enhances the co-existence of people and their activities, activities
generate a sense of general purpose that the jan walks with. However, these activities

have a significant effect deeply in creation on the urban architectural arena a place

of a pilgrimage forms and offer in its architectural programs. “A sustainable

environment is one in which environmental sustainability conditions are met in the
cities growth as the other sector that contribute towards growth”. According to (Krier,

1979:16), pilgrimage is one of the forms of tourism that can achieve the objectives of

sustainability as it is characterized by little burden to the earth, killing of animals by
some religion is a taboo, the pilgrimage site are continuously dictated in non-client

period and finally the guest is closely related the host in terms of culture.

Venkatachalam and Patwardhan ,(2011) noted that; some places in India are losing
control in the development of sustainable pilgrimage tourism since several features

are being compromised. “Sustainability and pilgrimage:cin the long term, this will go

far to ensuring a successful pilgrimage tourism industry”. In another work, Laing and
Frost explored Staging Green Events: There are a number of significant barriers that

has prevented significant of free closures of the events these barriers are : the

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