Abstract

The number of pilgrim who make a religious visit to pilgrimage sites has increased across the whole world. However, COVID-19 has on affect on pilgrim’s participation restriction due to guidelines for protection and mandatory guidelines and such as bans on pilgrim's visiting sacred places and pilgrimage sites. This study identify the constraints and motivations of pilgrim who visited pilgrimage sites during COVID-19 by applying a model of leisure constraints negotiation process and investigate the relationship among constraints, motivation, negotiation, and participation. As the result of the study, the constraint of pilgrimage tourism was confirmed with two factors, structural constraints and interpersonal constraints, and the pilgrimage motivation was found to be three factors, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, faith, and restoration of attention, and negotiation and participation were found to be one factor respectively. Only interpersonal constraints had a negative effect on negotiations in the constraint-negotiation relationships, all structural constraints and interpersonal constraints didn’t directly affect participation. In the pilgrimage motivation-negotiation relationships, only attention restoration of pilgrimage motivation had a positive impact on negotiations, while only St. Andrew Kim Tae-gun and faith had positive impacts on participation in the pilgrimage motivation-participation relationships. Finally, negotiations had a strong positive effect on participation. Based on the results of this study, academic and practical implications were proposed.

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