Abstract
Abstract Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork including participant observation, site inspections within the forbidden 'red zone' of towns such as Norcia, Amatrice and Campi, and interviews with locals, administrators, tourism industry workers, and clergy, this chapter examines the physical and spiritual impacts of the series of earthquakes in Central Italy in 2016, and explores how different stakeholders (e.g. tourist guides, local authorities, shopkeepers, priests, nuns and monks, and tourists) have framed the role of tourism in the area and how touristic practices re-signify the value of places and their associated moral ideals after environmental disasters. In addition, the chapter examines the dialectical effects of a double environmental transformation on sites: how a natural disaster - unplanned and uncontrollable by social actors - impacts the tangible and intangible fabric of pilgrimage sites, and how those subsequent social interventions likewise impact religious tourism and its stakeholders as well as the wider environment itself.
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