What is it?

Pilgrimage tourism is a journey to a temple, shrine or other

locations that are significant in the faiths and beliefs of the tourists.
A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim.
It can be also linked with religious tourism.
Distinguishing pilgrimage from tourism[6]

Element Pilgrimage Tourism

Faith always contains "faith not required
expectancy"
Penance search for wholeness not required
Community often solitary, but should often with friends and family,
be open to all or a chosen interest group
Sacred silence to create an not present
space internal sacred space
Ritual externalizes the change not present
within

Today I’m going to present pilgrimage tourism through four religions.

Buddhism (4 places)

 Lumbinī (Nepali and Sanskrit: "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage

site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. It is the
place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mahamayadevi
gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama.
Lumbini has a number of older temples, including the Mayadevi
Temple, and various new temples, funded by Buddhist organisations
from various countries, have been completed or are still under
construction.
  Bodh Gaya is a religious site associated with the Mahabodhi Temple
Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous as it
is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained
Enlightenment under what became known as the Bodhi Tree.[2] Since
antiquity, Bodh Gaya has remained the object of pilgrimage and
veneration both for Hindus and Buddhists.
 Sarnath: (formally Isipathana, Uttar pradesh, India) where he
delivered his first sermon (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta), and the
Buddha taught about the Middle Way, the Four Noble Truths and
Noble Eightfold Path.
 Kusinara: (now Kusinagar, India) where he attained mahaparinirvana
(died).

Christianity
Christian pilgrimage was first made to sites connected with the birth, life,
crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

Aside from the early example of Origen in the third century, surviving
descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th
century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including
Saint Jerome, and established by Saint Helena, the mother of
Constantine the Great.
Pilgrimages were, and are, also made to Rome and other sites associated
with the apostles, saints and Christian martyrs, as well as to places where
there have been apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
  The Santiago de Compostela Cathedral located, in Galicia, Spain.
The cathedral is the reputed burial place of Saint James the Great, the
apostle of Jesus Christ. It is also one of the only three remaining
churches in the world built over the tomb of an apostle of Jesus. The
archcathedral basilica has historically been a place of pilgrimage on
the Way of St. James since the Early Middle Ages and marks the
traditional end of the pilgrimage route.
 In the ancient times a combined pilgrimage was held every seven
years in the three nearby towns of Maastricht, Aachen and
Kornelimünster where many important relics could be seen .

 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales recounts tales told by Christian

pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral and the shrine of
Thomas Becket.
Hinduism
According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, "most Hindu
places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives
of various gods.... Almost any place can become a focus for pilgrimage,
but in most cases they are sacred cities, rivers, lakes, and mountains."[10]
Hindus are encouraged to undertake pilgrimages during their lifetime,
though this practice is not considered absolutely mandatory. Most
Hindus visit sites within their region or locale.
 Kumbh Mela: Kumbh Mela is one of the largest gatherings of humans
in the world where pilgrims gather to bathe in a sacred or holy river. The
location is rotated among Allahabad, Haridwar, Nashik, and Ujjain.

 Char Dham (Four Holy pilgrimage sites): The famous four holy sites
Puri, Rameswaram, Dwarka, and Badrinath (or alternatively the
Himalayan towns of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri)
compose the Char Dham (four abodes) pilgrimage circuit.
 Kanwar Pilgrimage: The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious
pilgrimage. As part of this phenomenon, millions of participants gather
sacred water from the Ganga (usually in Haridwar, Gangotri, Gaumukh, or
Sultanganj) and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings
in Śiva shrines.[14]

 The Murugan pilgrimage route of Sri Lanka, an ancient

Arunagirinathar-traversed Pada Yatra route of Tiruppadai temples
includes the Maviddapuram Kandaswamy Temple in Kankesanturai, the
Nallur Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna, the Pancha Ishwaram Koneswaram
temple in Trincomalee, the Verugal Murugan Kovil on the banks of the
river Verugal Aru, in Verugal, Trincomalee District, the Mandur
Kandaswamy temple of Mandur (Sri Lanka), Thirukkovil Sithira
Velayutha Swami Kovil, in Thirukkovil, Batticaloa, the Arugam Bay and
Panamai in Amparai district, the Ukanthamalai Murugan Kovil, in
Okanda, Kumana National Park and then through the park and
Tissamaharama to the deity's holiest site, Kataragama temple, Katirkamam
in the South.

Islam
The Ḥajj (main pilgrimage to Mecca) is one of the five pillars of Islam and
a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least
once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and
financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their
family during their absence. The gathering during the Hajj is considered
the largest annual gathering of people in the world.[18][19][20] Since 2014,
two or three million people have participated the Hajj annually.[21] The
mosques in Mecca and Medina were closed in February 2020 because of
the COVID-19 pandemic and the hajj was permitted for only a very
limited number of Saudi nationals and foreigners living in Saudi Arabia
starting on 29 July.[22]
About four million pilgrims participate in the Grand Magal of Touba, 200
kilometres (120 mi) east of Dakar, Senegal. The pilgrimage celebrates the
life and teachings of Cheikh Amadou Bamba, who founded the Mouride
brotherhood in 1883 and begins on the 18th of Safar (February).