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Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft

ISSN 1867-9501

1 paper in the library · publishing 2021

Papers

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.