Cultural Landscape of Chaitanyaism: An Appraisal on the Status of a Spiritual Triangle for Pilgrimage Tourism

Abstract

Pilgrimage tourism is the post-modern form of pilgrimage. Hare Krishna movement has already attracted the attention of the spiritual world in generating the flow of such pilgrim tourists. Considering Sri Chaitanya as the Master, the devotees used to travel to the places bearing memories of his life events, namely Nabadwip, Puri and Vrindavan incorporating which a triangular tourism circuit is already developed. This paper is an attempt to analyse the status of pilgrimage tourism development in this circuit with the application of a number of techniques available in qualitative research domain in order to address the research gap on planning sustainable pilgrimage tourism in Indian context based on the spiritual heritage of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.