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| Title: | Exploring Religious Tourist Experiences in Bethlehem: The Intersection of Abrahamic Religions |  | Authors: | Kılıç, Hasan (Supervisor) Shehadeh, Anas Abedalrahman Ibrahim
 Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism
 |  | Keywords: | Tourism Faculty Religious Tourism--Christian Pilgrimage Destination--Bethlehem (Palestine)
 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
 |  | Issue Date: | Sep-2020 |  | Publisher: | Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ) |  | Citation: | Shehadeh, Anas Abedalrahman Ibrahim. (2020). Exploring Religious Tourist Experiences in Bethlehem: The Intersection of Abrahamic Religions. Thesis (M.S.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Tourism, Famagusta: North Cyprus. |  | Abstract: | Religious tourism is one of the oldest forms of tourism and represents an important 
aspect of the travel and tourism industry. Religious authorities should understand the 
tourists' behavior in order to be able to post the tourist card and the meeting attended 
by tourists.
The absence of work on tourism for religious purposes and the perceptions of 
religious visitors, and taking into consideration the value of religious tourism, this 
thesis objects to scan visitors from the three Abrahamic faiths, Jews, Christians and 
Muslims, and their impressions in Bethlehem through means of a survey. Bethlehem 
was chosen for its unique religious importance and was recognized by the three 
Abrahamic religions. In addition to the great historical significance of this religiously 
unique city, which combines the three largest religions in the world, it is a meeting 
point and a global gathering of religious tourists.
Using a comfort nonprobability sampling method, which is a suitable method when 
the opportunities to be able to instrument a haphazard sampling technique accurately 
represent the small population (Han, Meng, and Kim, 2017; Song, Lee, Kang, & 
Boo, 2012).
One (print) method was used for distributing questionnaires to the study group. Thus, 
to meet the target sample of tourists for religious purposes from three faith 
denominations also from a number of countries, scientist, along with a paying MBA 
student, visited several famous tourist restaurants and hotels in the ancient city of 
Bethlehem and invited tourists to engage voluntarily in the Academic Survey on 
Religious Tourism in Bethlehem. ÖZ:
Din turizmi, turizmin en eski çeşitlerinden sadece biridir. Buna ek olarak, din 
turizmi, seyahat ve turizm endüstrisinin önemli bir yönünü temsil eder. Bu yüzden, 
dini yetkililer, turist eğilim ve davranışlarını iyi anlamak durumundadırlar. Dini 
amaçlı ziyaret gerçekleştiren turistlerin algılarına yönelik literatürde çok az sayıda 
araştırma bulunmaktadır. Buna ithafen, çalışma, Beytüllahim de bulunan dini 
turizmin değeri göz önünde bulundurularak, toplamda üç İbrani dinden olan 
Yahudiler, Hıristiyanlar ve Müslümanlar'dan gelen ziyaretçilerin algıları anket 
yöntemi kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Beytüllahim, dünyanın en büyük üç dinini 
birleştiren ve dini açıdan eşsiz olan tarihsel öneminin yanı sıra, bir buluşma noktası 
ve dini amaçlı ziyaret gerçekleştiren turistlerin küresel bir buluşma merkezidir. 
Çalışmada, gelişigüzel örnekleme tekniği, küçük popülasyonu doğru bir şekilde 
temsil ettiği için kullanılmıştır. Katılımcılara anket dağıtılmış ve, üç inanç 
mezhebinden dini amaçlarla hedeflenen turist örneklemini karşılamak için bilim 
adamı ve maaşlı bir öğrenci, Beytüllahim antik kentindeki birkaç ünlü turistik 
restoran ve otelinde bulunan turistleri gönüllü olmak koşuluyla çalışmaya dahil 
etmişlerdir.
 |  | Description: | Master of Science in Tourism Management. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research. Thesis (M.S.) - Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism, 2020. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hasan Kılıç |  | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11129/6133 |  | Appears in Collections: | Theses (Master's and Ph.D) – Tourism 
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