religious tourism
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travel to religious sites
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Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is one of the largest gatherings for religious purposes anywhere in the world. Christians come to the Jordan river to baptise. Picture taken in Yardenit, Israel. Religious tourism, spiritual tourism, sacred tourism, or faith tourism, is a type of tourism with two main subtypes: pilgrimage, meaning travel for religious or spiritual purposes, and the viewing of religious monuments and artefacts, a branch of sightseeing.
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