A New Kind of Pilgrimage: The Modern Tourist Pilgrim of Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Palestine
Author(s)
Bar, D.; Hattab, K. C.
Abstract
The article seeks to examine the onset of modern-day tourism in Palestine. A new late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century tourist is characterized, based on the examination of several factors: motives for the journey, period in the year, mode of travel, traveler’s religious affiliation and social background, traveler’s reaction to Palestine and the services used by the traveler. It emerges that this new type of visitor to the Holy Land, the modern tourist pilgrim, presented a unique blend of the sacred and the secular while touring the country, often as part of a broader tour of the Mediterranean.
