What is it about?
The work is on the impact of religious tourism on Cistercian Monastery Awhum, Enugu State Nigeria. religious tourism has both positive and negative impacts.The positive impacts include the provision of employment opportunities, income generation, development facilitation, and an improvement in the standard of living for members of the host community as well as spiritual benefits such as creating the opportunity and a conducive environment for tourists to establish better relationships with the Supreme Being. In addition, pilgrimage to Awhum Monastery popularizes the host community and enables religious tourists to visit other ecotourism sites within the monastery complex. The negative impacts are increased noise, crime rates, and cultic activities as well as hostility between the religious community and the host community
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Why is it important?
The study is important because it will help stakeholders in religious tourism to guard against its negative impacts. That is, it will help in promoting sustainable religious tourism practices.
Perspectives
This paper is on the positive and negative effects of tourists visit to Awhum monastery. The positive effects include creating an enabling environment for tourists to relate with God, employment for members of host community among others. It is also important to make the host community realize the importance of religious tourism in their community as this will make them avoid clashes with the religious community.
Dr Obiageli Christiana Okoye
University of Lagos Akoka Yaba Lagos, Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context, The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic Social and Cultural Context, Common Ground Publishing,
DOI: 10.18848/2325-1115/cgp.
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