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The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor? (2014)
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Knox, D., & Hannam, K. (2014). The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor?. Tourism Recreation Research, 39(2), 236-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2014.11081769

The metaphor of the tourist as pilgrim and tourism as a pilgrimage has been an important idea in tourism studies, reproduced in both academic and popular accounts with varying degrees of criticality. This research probe considers a number of differen... Read More about The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor?.