Pilgrims’ Motivation for Travelling to the Iasi Feast

Tatarusanu Maria (), Niță Valentin (), Corneliu Iațu (), Butnaru Gina-Ionela () and Ciortescu Elena ()
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Tatarusanu Maria: Department of the Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Niță Valentin: Department of the Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Corneliu Iațu: Department of the Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Butnaru Gina-Ionela: Department of the Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Ciortescu Elena: Department of Economics and International Business, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

Czech Journal of Tourism, 2019, vol. 8, issue 2, 157-175

Abstract: Either due to religious and spiritual motivations or to personal ones, religious pilgrimages have become increasingly popular during the last decades. The article proposes a study concerning the motivations of pilgrims who travel to Iasi every year in October to attend a religious event organized in the city. The main goal of this paper is to present the results of the research concerning the main travel motivations of pilgrims. The issue is whether their socio-demographic profile influences their travel motivations and the extent to which pilgrims’ satisfaction is determined by the travel motivations they declare. This is quantitative research which uses a questionnaire survey, based on the data provided by 441 respondents. The results are important for the scholars in religious tourism and for destination managers who use this kind of data to improve their planning and organisational activities of such events.

Keywords: pilgrim; pilgrim’s motivation; religious tourism; socio-demographic profile; satisfaction; Iasi Feast (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z12 Z32 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/cjot-2019-0010

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