Religious tourism the the act of going to a destination of religious significance. This is often for a pilgrimage or missionary. This tourism type is focused on visiting places of worship or religious festivals. For example, temples, churches, mosques and shrines. Some religious festivals are Diwali, India, Christmas and Ramadan and Eid Ul-Fitr.

Religious missionary is when a person is sent to an area to promote their faith or promote their services such as education, social literacy, social justice or health care.  

Spiritual tourism overlaps with religious tourism in the majority, however, spiritual tourism focuses on personal growth, inner peace and enlightenment. Regardless of a persons religious affiliation, spiritual tourism bring people together in places that bring a feeling of spirituality energizing or enlightening. For example, people visit natural sites that are believed to have a sense of spiritual energy. 

As previously mentioned, spiritual and religious tourism majorly overlap with only a few differences between them. Religious tourism has a main focus of a person or groups faith and worship within the context of their religious identity. Whereas, spiritual tourism focuses more on the spirituality of a person and how they experience peace within themselves which may be believed to be beyond religious boundaries.