Global Jewish tourism

Abstract

The word ‘pilgrimage’ usually conjures up images of travellers undertaking long arduous journeys to religious shrines around the world. Most of this imagery is predicated upon notions and concepts drawn from medieval pilgrimage, a social movement that occurred between 500 and 1500 CE. Pilgrimage offered a temporary escape from the generally harsh existence in an agrarian-based society, so much so that medieval pilgrimage is generally given as the first example of mass tourism as we know it today. However, by the end of the fifteenth century the motivation for pilgrimage had changed from the spiritual to be one of curiosity, the desire to see new places and experience new things reflecting broader changes that were occurring in European society around that time (Sumption 1975).

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