Noga Collins KreinerUniversity of Haifa | haifa · Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Noga Collins Kreiner
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies; University of Haifa, Israel
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Introduction
Noga Collins-Kreiner is a Professor (Associate, PhD), in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, the Head of the Haifa and Galilee Research Institute and the former President of the Israeli Geographical Association (IGA).
Her main research interests are: Pilgrimage, Religious Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Hiking, Trails and Tourism Development and Management.
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May 2016 - February 2021
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- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Noga Collins-Kreiner is a Professor (Associate, PhD), in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, the Head of the Haifa and Galilee Research Institute and the former President of the Israeli Geographical Association (IGA). Her main research interests are: Pilgrimage, Religious Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Hiking, Trails and Tourism Development and Management.
January 2010 - October 2015
Education
February 2002 - February 2003
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Publications (95)
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the crossover between religious tourism and archaeology. It begins with a clarification of what religious tourism is and continues to consider the link between archaeological sites, religious heritage and religious tourism. It then moves on to a supply-focused typology of sites and a typology of visitors...
This review article has four primary goals. First, it seeks to analyze the field of religion and tourism in terms of development and progress according to disciplines, authors, journals, and religions covered. Second, it offers a knowledge map and a metaanalysis reflecting key-areas of academic insight into the religion-tourism nexus. Third, it syn...
This article’s first goal is to propose an interpretation of a historical event of major economic, political, and religious significance with attributes resembling those of the current Covid-19 pandemic: the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity. The second goal is to explain and analyze the Christian pilgrimage market and to suggest that, due...
This article’s first goal is to propose an interpretation of a historical event of major economic, political, and religious significance with attributes resembling those of the current Covid-19 pandemic: the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity. The second goal is to explain and analyze the Christian pilgrimage market and to suggest that, due...
This research examines the impact of COVID-19 mobility restrictions and vaccinations on people’s behavioural intentions to travel and their actual travel patterns. The study was conducted in Israel using three-wave cross-sectional analysis: June 2020 (n=129), November 2020 (n=211) and April 2021 (n=208). The findings reveal that the main factor sup...
Highlights
The note compares and synthesizes six national Covid-19 exit strategies for tourism.
Only 8% of the recommendations proposed by the UNWTO (2020) were fully implemented.
Italy adopted relatively more recommendations than the other countries studied.
Exit strategies tend to be short-term, local solutions.
Exit strategies differ from c...
The objective of this study is to examine the management strategies for archaeological heritage sites and to identify optimal managerial strategies for such sites. The study is primarily qualitative in nature and consists of two main stages: a) development of a conceptual framework based on measures for site evaluation; 2) application of the method...
Based on the premise that hiking in Israel is strongly related to constructs of sense of place and place attachment, this study analyzes the motivations and experiences of hikers along the Israel National Trail. To this end, it employs diverse methods, including ethnographic methods such as participant observations and informal interviews, question...
The study investigates the current level of tourism development of Ohrid by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. The main aim is to assess how much the city has changed due to tourism expansion. In this line, the research explores each TALC stage by an in-depth analysis of Ohrid’s urban transformation. By employing qualitative and qua...
Issues arise when trying to understand the motivation of
policymakers to preserve the assets of cultures that do not belong
to the mainstream population. Tunbridge and Ashworth’s seminal
study on ‘Dissonant Heritage’ and Bennett’s developmental model
of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS model) provide a basis to evaluate
both the motivations and the...
Purpose-This paper aims to analyse the development of the pilgrimage phenomenon over the past few decades. Pilgrimage was the first tourism mobility to come into existence thousands of years ago. In recent decades, its significance has decreased, as other tourism segments have gained prominence. Although modern tourism is regarded as a relatively n...
This study examines the development of a major heritage tourism site in Israel-the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The heritage site evolved into a contested area, which in two decades has become an important site in Jerusalem, attract hundreds of thousands visitors a year. The present study focuses on the site development processes and t...
This article assesses the different forces involved in shaping the city of Ohrid (North Macedonia) and demonstrates the manner in which the city has been transformed by tourism development. As a post-socialist city, the development of Ohrid has unique characters in terms of landscape, economic dynamics, and functional dimensions. The study's aim is...
The value estimates and conservation plan of ecosystem services (ES) may have multiple interpretations in a site consisting of a mixture of ecosystems (e.g., maquis, conifer forest, seashore and agroecosystems) and overlapping management practices (e.g., national parks and nature reserves as part of a biosphere reserve). This study examines the rel...
This article analyses the development and progress of conflicts at the “City of David” heritage-tourism site in Jerusalem, Israel and the reciprocal relations between heritage sites and conflicts. It offers a comprehensive examination of the development of a major tourist attraction in Israel. Our research is based on the following two methods of q...
Hiking is a system of spatial behaviour. This study explores hiking
as practiced along the Israel National Trail and posits that hiking
and the hikers’ community together constitute a ‘social world’. Our
study asked three primary research questions: As the mobility of
hiking is typically contextualized within the social world of the
pastime, how ha...
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the crossover between religious tourism and archaeology. It begins with a clarification of what religious tourism is and continues to consider the link between archaeological sites, religious heritage and religious tourism. It then moves on to a supply-focused typology of sites and a typology of visitors...
The Israel National Trail (INT) spreads over more than 1,000 km across Israel from Dan in the north to Eilat in the south. The objectives of this research were to learn the characters of those who walk the trail and their motives, and at the same time to learn more about the trail's potential as part of the trails-tourism system in Israel. An on-li...
Numerous studies have found that backpackers experience their trips as highly meaningful, to the point of being transformative. Whereas the majority of these studies were conducted not long after the return of the backpackers, when the experience was still fresh in their minds, the current exploratory study is a response to call to study the deep a...
Tourism and depression disorder are both common phenomena in the 21st century. Research has pointed out the varying mental
health effects of engaging in tourism, with most studies suggesting a positive correlation between participant wellbeing and going on
vacation (Chen, Lehto, & Cai, 2013). The present research sheds light on the impact of touris...
The paper discusses common themes in different religions regarding pilgrimage-tourism and has four main goals. First, it shows that the boundaries between pilgrimage and tourism have become blurred. Second, it characterises the different changes that have taken place in pilgrimage research in recent years. Third, it re-examines three different pilg...
Issues arise when trying to understand the motivation of policymakers to preserve the assets of cultures that do not belong to the mainstream population. Tunbridge and Ashworth's seminal study on ‘Dissonant Heritage’ and Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS model) provide a basis to evaluate both the motivations and the...
This article investigates the symptoms of tourism development in Macedonia by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. The study explores the political context and the government’s role in policy-making and implementation at each TALC stage. It also attempts to assess key arenas of governmental influence on tourism, such as privatization,...
The main aim of this study is to better understand why people hike the Israel National Trail (INT) and the behavioural, experiential, and spatiotemporal phenomena that accompany this activity. In this explorative study, we assumed that hiking the INT encompasses both universalistic aspects of hiking, in its capacity as a mobility system shared by h...
What are the connections between Judaism and tourism? Indeed, one may question the very idea of wedding these two concepts. One may wonder if Judaism, as a creed and a religious frame of reference, holds any particular understanding that serves and guides its adherents’ “touristic” approach. In this chapter, we explore the connections and dramatic...
The aim of this exploratory study is to describe, examine, and analyze the manner in which tour guides in Israel gaze at the groups of foreign tourists they lead, in light of their close familiarity and cumulative experience with them. How do Israeli tour guides view different types of tourists, tourist behaviors, and tourist worldviews? The concep...
The study investigates the current level of tourism development in Macedonia by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. Moreover, it assesses the validity and applicability of this model with regard to the evolution of tourism expansion. The article explores several areas of government’s role in the process of tourism growth at each TALC...
A theoretical framework is proposed for systematizing our understanding of how concepts in tourism emerge and change over time through the example of a structured description of the evolving phenomenon of ‘Pilgrimage Tourism.’ Using the ‘product lifecycle’ (PLC) model, I explain the changes that have taken place in pilgrimage research over the year...
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The paper has two aims. The first is theoretical and calls for examining key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in the scholarship on cultural tourism in order to better understand its transformation in the digital age. The study characterizes the changes that have taken place in cultural tourism research by reviewing both literature and case...
This research note posits that the time has come to re-examine our contemporary usage of terms in order to allow for broader interpretations of different phenomena in the field of tourism. Specifically, it deals with the relationship between “dark tourism” and “pilgrimage”, but also highlights a number of broader ideas regarding the current state o...
The paper's aims are twofold: first to present framing methodology as an approach which provides insights into conflicts stemming from the construction of new religious sites. Second, to analyse the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, using framing in order to understand the spatial-religious conflicts involved in its establishment. The find...
Journal of Tourism History, 2015
BOOK REVIEW Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) By Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Shoval Noam (Routledge, 2014).
Jerusalem is a fascinating and multifaceted city, and this book, which traces tourism pilgrimage to the holy city in a well-organized, well do...
Religion and tourism are inextricably linked. There are also many implications for the sites themselves and those who visit and are visited. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the primary issues and concepts related to tourism-religion intersections and discuss them from theoretical and applied perspectives. Empirical cases are from Christian...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between tourists and bird populations visiting the Agamon-Hula Park. Our main hypothesis is that the number of birds and their minimal distance from groups of human visitors are correlated with the number of visitors in the groups. Visitor and bird populations were mapped simultaneously i...
Religion and the expansion of religious sites throughout the built environment have a long and conflict-ridden history. This paper examines the development of three controversial religious sites in Israel that have developed in recent decades in an effort to better understand the kinds of political, social, and locational circumstances that cause s...
This paper deals with the characterizations of tourists who visited the Mount Carmel National Park in Israel, since the forest fire of December 2010, in terms of motivation, visiting patterns, recreational tourism, consumption patterns, and linkages to "dark tourism. This last is a part of growing phenomenon of tourist interest in sites related to...
This book is about host-guest encounters in tourism, and specifically focuses on the host gaze. It identifies the aspects of the host gaze that distinguish it from the tourist gaze and from the conventional gaze encountered. It also identifies different types of host gazes and roles associated with them, as well as various categories of visitor tha...
Using the Tourist City model, this study evaluates Tel Aviv's tourism product and visitor satisfaction and asks three major questions. What tourism components does the city offer? How do tourists relate to these components? And what differences, if any, emerged in the responses of the different visitor groups? This article employs two primary resea...
This paper explores the management of coastal resources in two regions of Israel: the urbanized area of metropolitan Haifa and the rural coastal belt between Atlit and Hadera. Development pressures on the coastal resources are enormous as a result of population growth and the density of population in the coastal belt. Major non-sustainable uses in...
This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western tourists to Dharamsala in Northern India. It supplies information on the growing phenomenon of Western people visiting the East for self-fulfilment, study and belief. The article aims to deal with tourism in its popular cultural format, as this aspect of the phenomenon...
This study focusses on souvenirs and their meanings. It employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate time-dependent changes in tourists' attitudes toward souvenirs and the process through which objects become souvenirs. The research indicates that the passage of time and gaining tourist experience does affect the meanings of tou...
This paper analyses tourism development in the Agmon Lake site in Israel. Demand was assessed by analysing the perceptions of the site held by four different groups of respondents: tourism agents, tourism providers, visitors, and non-visitors. The study applied a methodology of comparative interview analysis to the four surveys. Supply-related aspe...
Pilgrimage is one of the basic and oldest population mobilities in the human world, and it has wide implications: political, social, cultural and economic. In this paper, geographical research on pilgrimage is reviewed, with attention to relevant findings from neighbouring disciplines. The aim of this research is to examine key issues, arguments an...
In order to view the establishment of new religions centers and how they are received by local populations, I analyze such basic geographical concepts as scale, space, location, and image. I see how these can alter the perception and further refine the concept of spatial transgression in three case studies in Israel: the building of the Mormon Cent...
Pilgrimage is one of the oldest and most basic forms of population mobility known to human society, and its political, social, cultural and economic implications have always been, and continue to be, substantial. This study aims to examine key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in the scholarship on pilgrimage in order to better understand ho...
This paper deals with an ecotourism site – the Agmon Lake in Israel. The main aim of the research is to conduct market analysis based on geographical, demographic and psychographic characteristics of visitors and non-visitors in order to draw some conclusions on the nature of ecotourism with respect to supply, demand and planning, and their interre...
Whether in its traditional religious form or its modern secular form, pilgrimage is currently experiencing resurgence the world over. This study analyzes the traits of current Jewish pilgrims to holy sites in Israel and explores the phenomenon of Jewish pilgrimage tourism in the country. To this end, it employs a variety of methodologies, including...
As Pickles44 claims, mapping is an interpretive act, in which the product - the map - conveys not merely the facts but also, and always, the author's intention and the values that he or she imparts to work. Like any text, the map assumes a life and a context of its own. Maps have always shaped and reflected the struggle over the control of the area...
Pilgrimage, whether religious or secular, is experiencing resurgence around the world. This research deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage to the graves of saintly Jews in Israel. Its aim is to analyze the characteristics of Jewish pilgrims to holy grave sites in Israel at the present time, and to assess the phenomenon of pilgrimage. This include...
SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis is a widely used method of evaluation employed in the business and planning worlds, including tourism planning, but there is little documentation on SWOT analysis in the academic tourism or geography literature. In this study SWOT analysis was applied more systematically in these are...
This paper explores the inherent contradiction and conceptual conflict that arises when sacred sites are marketed as secular for the purpose of promoting tourism. The question of conflict is further frustrated within the context of Israel’s contested religious landscape and Israeli policy. Using a Lefebvrian framework, the historical development of...
This paper examines the tourist experience within the context of the Bahá'í Gardens in Haifa, Israel. Using Cohen's (1979) typology and Smith's (1992) continuum model, we differentiate between visitors and perceptions of the same site. The study employs a mixed methodological approach that includes participant-observation, archival documents and sh...
The research methods of hermeneutics and semiotics were used to analyse maps of the Holy Land. The main conclusion of this study is how those methods could help us to read and understand maps. Other issues of concern are which religious elements actually appear and their form of representation in the range of maps. Narratives identified on the vari...
One hundred and one current maps of Israel were analysed for their modern mapping religious ele-ments in respect of the Holy Land. The main issues of the study are which religious elements appear and their form of representation in the range of maps; the impressions that can be derived from the different maps; and the narratives that can be constru...
One hundred and one current maps of Israel were analyzed for their mode of mapping religious elements related to the Holy Land. The main issues of the study were to find out the religious elements that appear in a wide range of maps and their form of representation, the impressions conveyed by the different maps, and the narratives construed from t...
The purpose of the paper is to examine the premise that pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the year 2000 was staged as a 'hallmark event' for Israel, and to a lesser extent, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Many Christian sacred sites are located in Israel (Jerusalem, Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee) and in the Palestinian-held areas (Bethlehem)....
The purpose of this paper is to describe, characterise and analyse the behavioural characteristics of Christian pilgrims to holy sites in the Holy Land at the present time. The method of research used in this study was based on one hundred questionnaires, which the pilgrims themselves were asked to complete. The conclusion is that a scale exists up...
The aim of the described study was to characterize and analyze the present behavioral characteristics of Christian pilgrims to holy sites in the "HolyLand", from the tourists' point of view. The methodology used consisted of questionnaires put to the pilgrims themselves. It was found that behavioral factors which characterize present-day Christian...
This paper deals with Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel. The research analyzes the characteristics of Jewish holy sites in present-day Israel, in terms of the fundamental concepts introduced into the study of pilgrimage by Turner (1969; 1973), Turner and Turner (1978), and Cohen (1992). The paper concentrates on a critique of the Turners' concept o...
This article investigates some aspects of the cartography of current Christian pilgrimage maps of the Holy Land, using the research method of cartographic content analysis. It was found that uniform characteristics occur in the cartographic representations of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The maps are designed to convey a Christian-religio...
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Im looking for good current articles about cultural ecosystem services.
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This volume will examine both specific case studies and more general issues stemming from the interaction of society, religion, culture, politics and environment. Special attention is paid to the increasingly obfuscated boundary between religious tourism and other tourism markets – reflected in the categories of spiritual tourism, heritage tourism, dark tourism, and secular pilgrimage – that has stemmed from de-differentiation among the different segments in recent decades.
Studying the significance of the religious tourism- sustainability relationship in the post Covid 19 Era transcends geographical and sociological aspects as it requires an interpretative approach of all factors.