{"id":4743,"date":"2020-07-21T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2020-08-12T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T03:24:40","slug":"how-has-covid-19-changed-religious-travel-and-pilgrimages-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/how-has-covid-19-changed-religious-travel-and-pilgrimages-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How has COVID-19 changed religious travel and pilgrimages? &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the deadliest pandemic since the new millennium viz. the COVID-19, religious and pilgrimage travel was business big time predicted only to get bigger and better by travel industry pundits. But a storm of change hurled things off the root, and proved all industry prophecies wrong. Just before the pandemic outbreak, an estimated 600 million religious and spiritual voyages were recorded, with 40 per cent of it taking place in Europe and over half of it in different regions of Asia, whilst the annual pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq, one of the most sacred sites for Muslims after Mecca and Medina and Jerusalem, pulled in over 25 million pilgrims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Shirdi\" class=\"wp-image-3794\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-342x257.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shiradi-temple-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia was not without hope for the annual Hajj this year.&nbsp; The Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages contribute a staggering $12 billion to the Saudi economy under normal circumstances, and this is equal to 20 per cent of the country\u2019s non-oil GDP and 7 per cent of the kingdom\u2019s overall GDP.&nbsp; It is expected that the Hajj and Umrah revenue generated will hit $150bn by 2022. It started on a positive note by enhancing the travel experience for both pilgrims as well as international tourists by pumping money into transport and luxury hotels. In 2019, 1.8 million pilgrims from around the world completed the annual Hajj, whilst tens of millions arrived for the Umrah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India, the land of spirituality, home to the greatest religions of the world, where people of diverse religions, communities and race have thrived with a great sense of oneness, pride and unity, had all its temples, churches and mosques closed indefinitely. It should be noted that the famous annual Amarnath Yatra that attracts thousands of Hindu devotees, scheduled to begin on June 23 and end up on August 3, on the day of Shravan Purnima had to be cancelled in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The health concerns everywhere in the world, as seen above, clearly outweigh the prospects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emperortraveline.com\/how-has-covid-19-changed-religious-travel-and-pilgrimages-part-1\/\">travelling to pilgrimage sites<\/a> in the immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the deadliest pandemic since the new millennium viz. the COVID-19, religious and pilgrimage travel was business big time predicted only to get bigger and better by travel industry pundits. But a storm of change hurled things off the root, and proved all industry prophecies wrong. 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