Introduction -- Deciphering Religious Tourism -- Seeking an Identity -- Pilgrimage and Tourism: Differences and Missionary Interaction -- Touristic Routes and Religious Spaces: Incorporating Significance -- Types of Religious Itineraries and Festivals in Brazil -- From Conceptual to Reflective Practice, Religious Tourism in the Sanctuary of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil -- New Sanctuaries for different Religions -- Observing Sanctuaries on a Regional Scale -- Religious Symbolism as a Tourist Attraction -- Religious Tourism and its Media.-Sustainability of Religious Tourism: Sacred Eco-tourism or Faith for the Masses -- Religious Tourism: The Visitation Model -- Religious Heritage -- Irradiation as a local tendency of updating faith -- Marian devotions in irradiation: The pedagogical model of Conceição Aparecida -- Conclusion.