Ricardo Nicolas Progano

 

Dr Ricardo Nicolas Progano

Dr Ricardo Nic­olas Progano

Ricardo Nic­olas Progano is a lec­turer at the Cen­ter for Tour­ism Research, Wakayama Uni­ver­sity, Japan.

With interests in com­munity-based reli­gious tour­ism and cul­tur­al tour­ism, Dr Progano’s anthro­po­lo­gic­al study of pil­grim­age tour­ism in Japan includes ana­lys­ing recent devel­op­ments through qual­it­at­ive fieldwork.

Nic­olas com­bines his back­grounds in Asi­an stud­ies (Uni­ver­sity of El Sal­vador) and tour­ism stud­ies (Wakayama Uni­ver­sity) with his lan­guage skills in Span­ish, Eng­lish, and Japan­ese to engage stake­hold­ers and present research find­ings to audiences.

Wellness pilgrimage: A post-COVID tourism business opportunity for sacred sites

August 31, 2021
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Is there wellness, perhaps even enlightenment, at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel? By Warren Wong via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/P1fZRtz7-VE

Many people will be keen to travel for well­ness, per­haps even enlight­en­ment, when they arrive at the end of their COVID-19 tun­nels. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, uni­ver­sity lec­turer Ricardo Nic­olas Progano points to the poten­tial for rur­al des­tin­a­tions with sac­red, spir­itu­al, or reli­gious her­it­age to tap into pent-up well­ness tour­ism demand. [Thanks to Jim […]

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