PILGRIMAGE ACADEMY 5 ● ENGLISH
Pilgrimage Adacemy 5
"THE HUMAN BEING"
5th Sacral-Spiritual Tourism Visitor Management Workshops
..., 2026 Veszprém, Hungary
A unique platform is provided for professionals engaged in religious tourism.
Opportunities for individual and organizational presentations, experience sharing, and collaboration are provided through plenary and section presentations, roundtable discussions, and special programmes, with both national and international speakers being involved.
The touristic and spiritual aspects of pilgrim hospitality are presented with the aim of enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of religious tourism.
Inspiring days are offered to participants, with all programmes being conducted in the spirit of shared values, openness, acceptance, and hospitality. The power of silence is allowed to be experienced, and communal encounters are made possible — all leaving a lasting impact on both professional and personal lives.
Pilgrimage Academy PLUS
We are organizing an international workshop at the Collegium Pazmanianum, in Vienna, Austria. We are still working on the details and will share the information as soon as the program is finalized.
Perhaps we don't even think about how many turns our path takes us through during our lives, and even if we do experience this, it is not certain that we will understand the purpose and curve of our wandering at first. There are moments when we stop or have to stop, evaluate, reevaluate.
Spiritual situations, moments and places have a decisive role in this, they help in the process.
Wandering is also discovery, getting to know ourselves, which requires time and space, so we have tourist services, exhibition sites, and deepening, cultural and sacred points at our disposal.
In order for these services to be not just business solutions, but soul-to-soul connections that reveal self-discovery, tourism players and professionals must learn and practice this role just as religious places or pilgrimage organizers do modern tourist service.
"I'm a pathfinder, on several levels and in different areas, but for now I can't find the right words to describe the experience and the feelings I've experienced in the last 2 days in Pannonhalma in the Main Abbey, thanks to the Pilgrims Academy. Thank you, and this on the way and I am grateful that you encouraged me to participate. I will try to give back the impossible in a few words and present what characterized these two days: - Shared values - Openness - Humor - Acceptance, inclusion - Hospitality - Working together and thinking together - Authenticity - Honesty - Transcendence. And there are three "top" things that I learned and experienced: 1.) The power of silence, 2.) The purpose of the journey as an offering, 3.) The importance of common values." Gyöngyvér Szabó
"Imagine yourself here. Even if you close your eyes. If you look inside a little, you feel that this space surrounds you, holds you. And now imagine 80 people here. A mass, with different stories, backgrounds, thoughts. A mass with its curious buzz , with his energy. Then imagine monks singing psalms to each other in two parts. When they reach the end, they remain motionless, an almost palpable silence and peace descends on the church. Then this silence and peace moves towards the 80 people. He caresses everyone one by one, and as if by magic infinite calm will take over everyone. They will connect with each other, with everything... It's imperceptible how much time passes without moving like this, in the endless silence. You can't even hear the rustling of coats. Space and time disappear. The twist is that I was able to experience all of this within the framework of a conference.” Márta Duchai