Ayahuasca-Tourismus in Peru: Motivationen und subjektive Bedeutungen bei Teilnehmern von Ayahuasca-Retreats im oberen Amazonasgebiet
Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft April 27, 2021 Tom Wolff
Ayahuasca, a strongly psychoactive brew from the Amazon rainforest, has spurred a thriving tourism from industrialized countries to rural Peru. Through participant observation and qualitative interviews with participants of traditionalized ayahuasca seminars in the rainforest, the study identifies motives and subjective meanings using qualitative content analysis and relates these to so-called pilgrimage tourism.