Religious Tourism and the Environment

Kiran A Shinde (Edited By) Dr Kiran Shinde teaches in the Planning program at La Trobe University, Australia. He doesresearch in the field of religious tourism, and has published about 50 research articles relating tocultural heritage, religious tourism, policy analysis, and destination planning and management.His papers have appeared in high-ranking journals, including Urban Studies, Current Issues inTourism, International Journal of Tourism Research, GeoForum, and Space and Culture. He has alsocontributed chapters in books published Elsevier, Routledge, SUNY Press, and CABI. He haspresented research papers at conferences in Canada, Turkey, Australia, Portugal, Singapore, theUK, and the USA. He was invited by the UNWTO to contribute to the Bethlehem Charter on ReligiousTourism. He is also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Religious Tourism andPilgrimage. Recently, he completed a UNWTO report on Buddhist tourism in Asia. He holds a PhDfrom Monash University, Australia, an MSc from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand),and an M.Tech from CEPT University, IndiaDaniel H Olsen (Edited By) Dr Daniel H. Olsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA. His research interests revolve around religious and spiritual tourism, heritage tourism, and the management of sacred sites, with secondary research interests in tourism in peripheral areas and tourism and disabilities. He is co-editor of Religion, Tourism, and Spiritual Journeys (Routledge, 2006) and Religious Pilgrimage Routes and Trails (CABI, 2018), and has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters.