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Pilgrimage Tourism to Mount Kailash: A Case Study of the Ladakh Route
By: SONAM JOLDAN, DISKIT ANGMO, CHIMAT LADOL, RINCHEN DOLMA – The Changthang region is a part of the high altitude Tibetan plateau. In eastern Ladakh, the Changthang stretches approximately 1,600 kilometers east into Tibet. The region is rich in wildlife and home to vast species of flora and fauna and scenic lakes attracting mainly international…
Tourism as Pilgrimage?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Anthropologists have been debating the relationship between the tourist and the pilgrim for a number of decades, using in a somewhat loose way terms such as vacation, travel and tour. The etymologies of the words used for travel, journey, voyage and tourism, as well as vacation, holiday, feast and fair, and…