This new edition is the single largest resource ever compiled on Europe's monastery and convent guesthouses. It is an extraordinary guidebook featuring more than 275 places of spiritual retreat in 17 countries including updated maps and information.
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Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses features more than two hundred fifty places of spiritual retreat located in seventeen countries. Inside, you'll find stories of major monastic orders, a chronicle of Gregorian chant, contact information for places of retreat, maps and directions, and more. A must-read for travelers, armchair pilgrims, students, history buffs, or anyone interested in convents and monasteries, this essential guide-book is your key to discovering some of Christianity's most ancient and beloved sites. Kevin J. Wright, founder and president of the World Religious Travel Association (WRTA), is one of the most recognized authorities on faith tourism and hospitality. During his fifteen year career, he has traveled to thirty countries and visited more than three hundred major places of pilgrimage. Includes Maps, Photos, and Web Sites.
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Kevin J. Wright, founder and president of the World Religious Travel Association (WRTA), is one of the most recognized authorities on faith tourism and hospitality. During his fifteen year career, he has traveled to thirty countries and visited more than three hundred major places of pilgrimage.
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Kevin J. Wright is one of the world's most recognized religious travel and hospitality authorities and Founder/President of the World Religious Travel Association (www.WRTAreligioustravel.com). As the leading global network for the faith tourism industry, WRTA exists to shape, enrich, and expand the 300 million traveler religious tourism and hospitality market. WRTA brings the trade and consumer together for the primary purpose of promoting and providing quality travel experiences for people of faith. WRTA hosts the annual World Religious Travel Expo, the most important meeting in the faith tourism and hospitality industry.
In the mid-1990s, Wright introduced the first faith-based travel guidebook series into the publishing industry via Liguori Publications with three award-winning religious travel guidebooks. In January 2008 he debuted his fourth book The Christian Traveler Planner, published by Thomas Nelson, one of the world's largest publishers. Wright's newest publication is the most comprehensive guidebook ever written on faith vacation opportunities. In his near fifteen-year career, he has traveled to 30+ countries, visited more than 300 major places of pilgrimage, embarked on full-ship faith-based cruise charters, writes for national publications, consulted for country tourist offices, and serves as an international guest speaker.
As one of the most sought-out religious travel authorities worldwide, Wright has been interviewed by CBS The Early Show, TIME Magazine, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Geographic, National Public Radio (NPR), London Times, El Pais (Spain's leading daily newspaper), Financial Express (India), Yahoo! Business Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Denver Business Journal, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Modern Agent, Travel Weekly, Travel Age West, Travel Trade, Travel Agent Magazine, Lodging Hospitality, and dozens of other travel, religious, and news media to discuss faith-based travel and hospitality.
In the mid-1990s, Wright introduced the first faith-based travel guidebook series into the publishing industry via Liguori Publications with three award-winning religious travel guidebooks. In January 2008 he debuted his fourth book The Christian Traveler Planner, published by Thomas Nelson, one of the world's largest publishers. Wright's newest publication is the most comprehensive guidebook ever written on faith vacation opportunities. In his near fifteen-year career, he has traveled to 30+ countries, visited more than 300 major places of pilgrimage, embarked on full-ship faith-based cruise charters, writes for national publications, consulted for country tourist offices, and serves as an international guest speaker.
As one of the most sought-out religious travel authorities worldwide, Wright has been interviewed by CBS The Early Show, TIME Magazine, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Geographic, National Public Radio (NPR), London Times, El Pais (Spain's leading daily newspaper), Financial Express (India), Yahoo! Business Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Denver Business Journal, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Modern Agent, Travel Weekly, Travel Age West, Travel Trade, Travel Agent Magazine, Lodging Hospitality, and dozens of other travel, religious, and news media to discuss faith-based travel and hospitality.
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Not a well-organized book.Map of Italy shows no monasteries in Sicily (though there's plenty of room), while map of "Italy South" shows two, one of which, "Gibilmanna" on the map is listed under its real name "Convento Cappuccini" which is a bit difficult to guess. What's the point of a map if you must read the entire text to find a place listed on the map? There is much useless filler material in this book such as how to get to Sicily by train (repeated verbatim for each monastery in Sicily). There is almost nothing on flights, ships, buses, cars.
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One of our Preferred Monastery Lodging Guidebooks,
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We bought several monastery lodging guidebooks for our travels to Europe. Each guidebook was very helpful in its own way. We found this guidebook Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses: A Pilgrim's Travel Guide to be one of our favorite resources, as it was the most updated and had current website addresses and email addresses. In addition, we found some monastery guidebooks to provide good travel information on how to reach each place while others didn't provide this helpful info. However, Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses was one of the better books in providing directions on how to reach each place. We also really liked the "Where to Stay" section, which for us was one of the most useful as it described the acccommodations available at each place. Above all, we also really liked the spiritual and historical aspect of monastery life integrated into this guidebook.
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Do not buy this book.,
By Robin Debson "Robin Debson" (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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I should have heeded the advice of another reviewer who complained that the book gave no information about prices or where Monasteries were located. (Arrogantly?) I figured I'd be able to locate the Monasteries (I was wrong). The book is useless and I will have to buy another. Seriously, if you buy this book you will regret it.
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