TOUR GUIDE ABILITIES AND SKILLS AND THEIR IMPACT ON RELIGIOUS TOURISM (AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE OPINIONS OF A SAMPLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERS OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM COMPANIES)

Authors

  • Hussein Munaam Khalaf Najaf Technical Institute, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University 31001 Al- Najaf, Iraq Department of Tourism

Keywords:

Tourism, Religious Tourism, Religion

Abstract

The tourist guide is the front face of the tourist state and the language that expresses the tourist destination and the tourism position of the state, and it represents a strategic and significant component of the tourism programs. The trip is recreational, religious, or other types and patterns of tourism that are many and varied. Still, there is specificity to religious tourism because it is related to the religious motive that drives a person to travel. Most of them are religious ceremonies and rituals, which require that the tour guide have skills and experience commensurate with the desires and goals of the religious tourist, and because religious tourism aims to adhere to a particular belief concerned with the spiritual contemplation of man and visiting places with ancient religious history, whose visit is considered a pilgrimage or a kind of practice of religious teachings.

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2023-07-28

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Hussein Munaam Khalaf. (2023). TOUR GUIDE ABILITIES AND SKILLS AND THEIR IMPACT ON RELIGIOUS TOURISM (AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE OPINIONS OF A SAMPLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERS OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM COMPANIES). European Journal of Research Development and Sustainability, 4(7), 88-98. Retrieved from https://scholarzest.com/index.php/ejrds/article/view/3748

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