ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on six areas of potentially fruitful research: unusual spaces and places of religious tourism, dark tourism and pilgrimage, slow and religious tourism, religious hospitality, emerging travel markets and motives, and the effects of globalization on religious tourism. The most common venues for tourism are temples, mosques, churches, shrines, archaeological sites, grottos and other natural areas, visitor centers, and various themed environments in both urban and rural settings. Museums are a prominent asset for heritage tourism, although people do not always think of them in the context of religious tourism. Dark tourism has received a great deal of academic awareness commensurate with its attention by the industry. Globalization connects people, places, businesses, and governments through trade, education, political alliances, transnational corporatization, social media, popular culture, and tourism. Tourism is both a product of globalization and a force for globalization.
