英文摘要 |
This study aims to research the motives and experience of the participants on the Camino de Santiago from the walkingtravel experience point of view. In 1987, the route was designated as the first European Cultural Route and new yellow waymarks started to appear alongside the arrow and the Camino began to see the coach tours and guided walking holidays for traveller or pilgrims from Spain and many other countries. Today tens of thousands of people from different countries walk this route every year. More or less, the walking on the Camino de Santiago has developed into a kind of tourism activity or sport activity. Tourism is often studied as a kind of experience. The process of tourism experience includes anticipation, participation and reflection. From this perspective and through the analysis of literature, participating observation(the researcher has walked on 10th June to 10th July 2015 from Saint-Jean-Pied- de-Port to Santiago de Compostela), and in-depth interviews with ten Participants on the Camino de Santiago, this study shows conclusions as follows: 1. Today, people walk this route for a number of motives, some spiritual, some cultural, some religious, some for physical exercise or just as a choice of Journey; 2. Participants on the Camino de Santiago have got deep physical and spiritual experience in all three process of tourism experience: anticipation, participation and reflection; 3. Participants through the about one month''s hiking on Camino de Santiago have obtained positive physical and spiritual experience and personal development. |