Religious tourism in the system of modern conceptual approaches and social practices

In the article, the authors analyze modern concepts describing religious tourism, including pilgrimage,historical, cultural, transformational, etc. and examines the practice ofusing the spiritual potential and the resourceof "religious eventfulness" for the development of tourist destinations and increasing the tourist flow. The articlepresents a review ofpublications on the subject of "religious and pilgrimage tourism", made on the basis of a generalization of the views of Russian and foreign researchers. As a result of a phased analysis, the authors identifiedthe main approaches to the formation of the concept of "religious tourism", systematized the reasons for choosing pilgrimage or religious tourism by travelers, and identified the most commonly used approaches to the study oftourist pilgrimage and religious tourism: anthropological and economic. In conclusion, recommendations were presentedfor the development of pilgrimage and religious tourism in tourist destinations.