Ethical requirements and challenges in religious tourism in Iran

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1 University of Islamic Studies، Qom، Iran

2 University of Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran

10.22081/jare.2023.66192.1817

Abstract

In addition to being responsible for a significant role as a source of funding for countries, the tourism industry plays a significant role in the expansion of cultures and values as a tool for soft power. Religious tourism is one of the important types of this industry in our country, which has a high capacity of Iranian-Islamic culture and religious-historical places and welcomes countless number of tourists every year, which further shows the necessity of dealing with this field. The special requirements of religious tourism in Iran require compliance with the ethics related to it. According to this type of prevailing conditions and the special conditions of some tourists, ethical challenges will arise in this field, and considering the important effects of religious tourism in different dimensions and the unreasonableness of closing tourism due to its harm, it is necessary to address the ethical challenges of religious tourism. Tourists, guides and performers will be investigated and solutions will be provided. . Therefore, in this research, with a descriptive-analytical method, a number of ethical challenges in this type of religious tourism in Iran, such as challenges related to destination customs, clothing rules, pilgrims' rights, etc., were studied, and finally solutions from Such as paying attention and understanding the culture of the destination and the tourist, a guiding attitude, etc., have been presented to overcome these ethical problems.

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  • Receive Date: 08 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 07 June 2023
  • Accept Date: 23 November 2023

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