Types of Christian Tourism.

Christian tourism is a sub-type of tourism where pilgrims travel alone or in group as missionaries or pilgrims or to spend their free time to recollect; it attracts a large number of travellers. Christian tourism can be practiced by religious young people, missionaries, participants to religious convents, amateurs of religious cruises, religious camps, visitors of religious attractions, religious adventurers. Christian tourism can be considered a sub-type of religious tourism because of the large number of people involved in this type of tourism worldwide. Christian tourism as a sub-category of religious tourism covers three main sub-types: traditional pilgrimage practiced by most world religions, missionary travel to different areas in the world, and confessional voyage. The structure of hospitality industry is common to all types of tourism but, for traditional pilgrimage, there must be special places for the pilgrims to sleep, eat and pray, because they belong, in most cases, to the medium-income tourist category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]