Valores y creencias en el turismo japonésPower spot como búsqueda de experiencias espirituales
- 1 Universidad de Salamanca (España)
ISSN: 2173-0024
Year of publication: 2018
Issue: 9
Pages: 1-14
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Nuevas Tendencias en Antropología
Abstract
An important part of tourism is movement. This movement causes a change in people’s daily life, awakening hope and even excitement. Japan, after a period of strong economic growth has begun to enjoy leisure, and tourism has flourished. Thus, different categories of tourism have appeared, such as urban tourism, ecotourism, green tourism, among many others. Among them we find the so-called tourism of return to the origins, or furusato kankô (ふるさと 観光) which involves visiting traditional places arousing nostalgic sentiments. We also find a type of tourism called power spot or spiritual tourism, which involves visiting sacred sites, where people can feel spiritual energies emerging from nature. We can observe that in Japan the so-called power spot tourism has been linked to religious tourism, pilgrimages, temple visits and festivals. Under this new term (power spot), tourism appears to have gained in popularity in such kind of events, being able to neutralize dark and traditional prejudices, that the Japanese, especially young people, had against religion. Behind this popularity, in power spot tourism there must be psychological motivations, as if the Japanese need somehow to visit precisely these quiet places as an individual spiritual quest, in order to attain inner cure, while at the same time receive the energy from these special sites. The aim of this paper is to discuss that type of phenomena
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