The programme is addressed to tourism-related professionals, education-related personal, and anyone interested in religion, culture, history and archeology.
Religious Tourism - Art, Monuments and Routes

The programme “Religious Tourism: Art, Monuments and Route Programmes” is a great way for participants to become acquainted with the secrets of religious tourism. They will learn how to organize the experience of a religious tour in Greece and around the world, and promote places where traditions of centuries continue to date. The programme is ideal for professionals from various fields who are called to manage relevant issues of the tourist product.
Furthermore, participants will be provided with specialized knowledge and skills that will enable them to offer organization and implementation services, as well as trip – excursions support. The programme will cover activities of pilgrimage with religious, cultural and tourist interest, focusing on the direct connection of the historical and religious element, crucial to the respective religious monuments.
The program aims at providing trainees with specialized knowledge and skills in the field of religious tourism. Its goal is to cultivate competences that will enable trainees to offer quality services relevant to organizing, implementing and supporting trips/excursions, and in general activities of pilgrimage, religious, cultural and tourist interest, focusing on the direct connection of the historical and religious element, which is of crucial importance for the essential contact with the respective religious monuments. Emphasis is placed on the overview of the history of religious art and architecture, while specific packages of religious destinations in Greece and abroad are proposed.
Lesson 1: Religious Tourism – Alternative Tourism
Unit 1: Principles of Religious Tourism
Unit 2: Forms of Religious Tourism
Unit 3: Religious Tourism and Tourist Legislation
Unit 4: Religious Tourism in Greece and the Search for Spirituality
Unit 5: Creation, Organization and Management of a Tourist Religious Package
Unit 6: Development of Religious Tourism and business activity
Lesson 2: Religious Art and Architecture
Unit 1: Overview of Religious Art and Architecture, from Ancient Egyptian Culture to the Modern Era Teaching Unit
Unit 2: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Architecture
Lesson 3: Organization of Religious Tourism and Other Alternative Forms of Tourism: Greece - Case Studies
Unit 1: Organizing a Tripto Archaeological Religious Monuments in Attica -Acropolis, Ancient Agora, Sounio, 3 days
Unit 2: Organizing a Trip to an Orthodox Christian Destination in Mainland Greece - Meteora, the Rocks of God, 3 days
Unit 3: Travel planning in an Orthodox Christian Destination in Island Greece - Patmos, the Island of the Apocalypse, 4 days
Lesson 4: Organization of Religious Tourist Trips and Other Alternative Forms of Tourism: Abroad - Case Studies
Unit 1: Travel planning in an Orthodox Christian Destination in Jerusalem - Holy Land - 7 days
Unit 2: Organizing a Trip to Christian Monuments in Rome, the Vatican and Florence, 5-6 days
Unit 3: Organizing a Trip to the Golden Triangle of India - Delhi, Agra, Taj Mahal, Jaipur, 8-10 days.
Unit 4: Organizing a Trip to Christian and Islamic monuments in Constantinople, (Istanbul), 7 days
Unit 5: Organizing a Trip to Archaeological Religious Monuments in Egypt - Pyramids of Giza, 5-7 days
Lesson 4: Other cases of religious travel
Unit 1: Organizing a Trip following the “Steps of the Apostle Paul” (Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and Italy) and “The Road of St. James, Camino de Santiago de Compostela" (France and Spain)”
Unit 2: Hajj, the road of Muslims for pilgrimage to Mecca and organizing religious trips to China and the Buddhist way of pilgrimage to Borobudur
Unit 3: Organizing religious trips to Russia and to the Central and South America in the U.S.A.
The participant’s final mark will be based on a combination of open and closed type questions.
Online and distance training learning at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
offers a new way of combining innovative learning and training techniques with interaction
with your tutor and fellow trainees from around the world.
The e-learning course is implemented via a user-friendly educational platform adjusted to
the Distance Learning Principles. Courses are structured as weekly online meetings;
interaction with the course tutor and other trainees takes place in a digital learning
environment. The courses are designed to fit around your schedule; you access the course
whenever it is convenient for you, however within the given deadlines.
The whole world becomes your classroom as e-learning can be done on laptops, tablets and
phones as a very mobile method. Learning can be done on the train, on a plane or even
during your trip to Greece!
The educational platform is a portal that offers access to electronic educational material
based on modern distance learning technologies. The computer based nature of training
means new technology is being introduced all the time to help trainees engage and learn in
a tailored way that will meet their needs. E-learners have access to the educational platform
with their personal code number in order to browse all relevant training material and
interact with their instructors.
Moreover, an online communication system through own personal e-mail account is
available in order to make the process easier and more interactive. Trainees can contact
directly their tutors or the administration office of the course and share any concerns or
anxieties related to the course in order to make the most of their experience.
Every week e-learners are provided with the relevant material, delivered either in the form
of video-lectures, text notes and relevant presentations or as a combination of them. The
educational material of the course is uploaded gradually, per educational unit. During the
course, important info for the smooth conduct of the educational process, such as
timetables for the submission of the exercises are announced on the Announcement section
of the platform.
For successful completion of the course the e-learner should have fulfill her/his academic
obligations, meaning should have submitted all corresponding assessment exercises and
have achieved at least an average of 50% grade in the corresponding tests for each module.
The score scale ranges from 0 to 100%. Finally, if the total score on one or more lessons of
the course does not exceed 50%, trainees can ask for reassessment.
During the course trainees will be attending a training experience designed by academics
and lecturers from the National University of Athens as well as from other Universities,
Research Institutes and Cultural organizations around Greece.
Interactivity, flexibility and our long tradition guarantee that learning with us offers a
successful and rewarding experience. Finally, access to a large variety of material and online
resources available in each unit aims to excite your curiosity and guide you in exploring
further your favorite topic. Part of the online material can be downloaded providing the
chance to quickly refresh your memory after the completion of the course.