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5 Top Spiritual Tourism Destinations & How to Experience Them

[Updated April 3, 2022] We can go to the most religious places in the world, but they will not be spiritual until we turn inward.

Alan Lew
Tourism Geographic
Published in
8 min readMar 17, 2022

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Morning alms giving in Luang Prabang, Laos, by Christin Bowman (Flicker.com, CC-BY-SA)

by Jaeyeon Choe and Alan A. Lew

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The pandemic has led some people to take a greater interest in religion and spirituality as a way of coping with the unprecedented changes that have taken place. As a result, spiritual tourism is expected to rise significantly post-pandemic.

One of the many definitions of the “spirit” is that it is our inner, nonphysical world, including both our conscious and subconscious minds. Our spiritual self interprets sensory inputs from our outer world and creates our experience of reality. Most people understand this. For example, a survey by the Fetzer Institute in February 2020 (just before the pandemic) found 73%…

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Alan Lew
Tourism Geographic

Anything and Everything is Possible in an Infinite Universe — http://www.AlanLew.com (paywall-free article links)