Sustainable religious tourism and its role in supporting the tourism product diversity "An Empirical Study on tourist sites in Iraq to focus on the province of Najaf."

Abstract

Reconstruction the touristic product, in general and the religious tourism in practical, in the way that support and develop the touristic products variety in Al-Najaf Al- Ashraf Governorate is the major aim of this study.The researcher notices via analyzing the status quo that there is a possibility to exhibit varied and integral touristic products with the sustainable religious tourism because Iraq is one of the countries that have ancient and original civilization and enjoys a large number of the touristic resources represented by the archeological, the athletic, the educational, and the geographic tourism and others. This will be done by supporting and developing these tourisms, this would result that the religious tourist would obtain the optimum benefit of his tour. The researcher obtained a number of conclusions and recommendations that might be used by the decision makers in the touristic organization to improve the tourism status,.