Tourism Accessibility and Its Impact on the Spiritual Sustainability of Sacred Sites

摘要: Religious heritage sites are defined by their nature, both religious and non-religious (historical, social, cultural, etc.), as being pilgrimage destinations, well tourist attractions. The main aim of this paper is to determine whether there a relationship between tourism accessibility the concept spiritual sustainability. Spiritual sustainability presented in analyzing sacred place connection it may have with development. authors attempted distinguish elements determining (spiritual) attractiveness several destinations for tourism, proposing model two concepts studied. Two European regions been compared—Pomerania (Poland) Catalonia (Spain)—by 30 (15 per region) using combination qualitative quantitative research methods. results show that lack positively affects sites. In other cases, impact can depends on management system.