As more and more people seek or experience spiritual fulfillment through tourism, the modes of spiritual tourism are extended further. The purpose of this study was to find out both how the tourist`s authentic experience is embedded in spiritual touri...
As more and more people seek or experience spiritual fulfillment through tourism, the modes of spiritual tourism are extended further. The purpose of this study was to find out both how the tourist`s authentic experience is embedded in spiritual tourism and interpret the authenticity of spiritual tourism from the Heidegger`s ontological perspective. Authenticity is tantamount to ontological question(question of Being) to selves and creates individuals` own pathos(being true to oneself) while sincerity is being true to others. The spiritual tourists try to negate the ethos of everydayness and attain their own pathos by adopting the authentic mode of Dasein. They set out spiritual travels as part of the efforts to get out of Falling that is used to describe the voluntary inauthenticity. Having an anxiety nullifies everyday-ness and makes individuals live with authentic mode of Dasein. The spiritual tourists are generally equipped with anxieties and tend to listen to a voice of conscience.