A Study Of Religious Tourism Purposes And Problems At Omkareshwar Jyotirling

Abstract

A Religious tourism is the tourism in which people wants to connect with the divine by going to a known sacred place in the form of a pilgrimage. Religious tourism is a transformational journey in which they receive new insights, a deeper understanding and attained blessings for healing their problems. People wants connections with the divine power for appealing of divine intervention to solve their personal problems and seek forgiveness, salvation for their sins and obtain spiritual enlightenment.

Hindus travel (Yatra) to various locations, temples and Samadhi’s (shrines) of saints for puja and Parikrama in order to acquire ‘Punya’ and achieve moksha. There are 12 Jyotirlings dedicated to Lord Shiva and one of them is Omkareshwar Jyotirling. Omkareshwar Jyotirling Is a shiv temple on Omkar mountain an island in mid of Narmada river. On the south side of the Narmada, there is an another shiv temple with the name Mamleshwar.

The present research was conducted to study the various purposes of religious tourists behind visiting Omkareshwar Jyotirling and the various problems they are facing during their visit at Omkareshwar Jyotirling The study is a descriptive research based on primary data collected from the 240 tourists visiting religious site of Omkareshwar Jyotirling, Madhya Pradesh by Interview method. From the study it is found that tourists visiting Omkareshwar Jyotirling with varying purposes in their mind. During this religious visit they are facing some problems related with various arrangements in and around the religious site of Omkareshwar Jyotirling.