The previous discussion was posited in such a way as to show the strands from which
to weave my own theory of what I see as a type of tourist activity. As Lyon noted,
whilst institutional religiosity has been, in many ways, in decline in terms of social
influence, the “religious realm” has not. Religiosity and spirituality, he argued, have
found different modes of expression within different contexts63. I believe that this is
evident within the context of tourism, especially when we consider the theoretical
positions concerning the similarities between tourism and pilgrimage.