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What is Literary Tourism

Chapter 11
Challenges and New Opportunities for Tourism in Inland Territories: Ecocultural Resources and Sustainable Initiatives
Is as a niche of cultural tourism that involves travelling to places that somehow have a connection with literature. It occurs when authors or their literature become so popular that people are drawn to either those locations associated with the author or those featured within their writings.
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Literary Tourism as a Good Practice to Promote Inland Tourism: The Case of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation in Portugal
Anabela Sardo (School of Tourism and Hospitality, Polytechnic of Guarda, Portugal) and Rita Arala Chaves (Polytechnic of Guarda, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7339-6.ch011
Abstract
This study is carried out within the scope of the topic “innovative projects and good practices in inland tourism,” and it will present the case of the Portuguese project Eça de Queiroz Foundation. The Eça de Queiroz Foundation was founded in 1990 on some of the properties left by the 19th-century Portuguese writer, Eça de Queiroz: the Vila Nova farm and house in Santa Cruz do Douro (Tormes/Baião/Portugal), a small inland village in the Douro, a Portuguese region whose landscape is classified as World Heritage. Currently, the organization has several areas of activity, such as cultural, agricultural, and commercial intervention. The foundation also offers numerous products and services that enhance the promotion of Tourism in the Northern Portugal Inland Region.
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Developing Literary Tourism to Support Local Culture and Tourism: The Case of Shkodra
A type of cultural tourism which has developed into an important tourism niche during the last years, literary tourism is travel related to literature, typically, either to places linked with a specific author (hometown, house, grave) or a book (setting, a trail in the footsteps of characters, etc), but it can also take a number of other forms.
Published in Chapter: Developing Literary Tourism to Support Local Culture and Tourism: The Case of Shkodra; From: Handbook of Research on Cultural Tourism and Sustainability
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The Literary Geography of İstanbul and the Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar in the Framework of the Narration and Tourism Relationship
A trip to places that were given value to by a literary figure or a literary work and events centered around literature.
Published in Chapter: The Literary Geography of İstanbul and the Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar in the Framework of the Narration and Tourism Relationship; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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Evaluating the Use of Digital Cartography to Showcase the Intangible Heritage: The Case of Literary Tourism
Tourism mainly motivated by a desire to visit to places linked to literary works or their authors.
Published in Chapter: Evaluating the Use of Digital Cartography to Showcase the Intangible Heritage: The Case of Literary Tourism; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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The Use of ICT in Tourist and Educational Literary Routes: The Role of the Guide
A type of cultural tourism that deals with places linked to literary works or literary authors.
Published in Chapter: The Use of ICT in Tourist and Educational Literary Routes: The Role of the Guide; From: ICT as Innovator Between Tourism and Culture
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Industrial Tourism and Literary Tourism: Niche Marketing Perspective and Regional Development
is a type of cultural tourism that deals with places and events from literary texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include visiting particular place associated with a novel or a novelist, such as a writer's home, or grave site, following routes taken by a fictional characters, visiting places mentioned in poems, as well as visiting museums dedicated to specific writers, works, regional literatures, and literary genres.
Published in Chapter: Industrial Tourism and Literary Tourism: Niche Marketing Perspective and Regional Development; From: Shifts in Knowledge Sharing and Creativity for Business Tourism
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Tourist Literature and the Architecture of Travel in Olga Tokarczuk and Patti Smith
Literary tourism is a niche of cultural and heritage tourism, and it refers to the act of travelling to visit places and landscapes associated with the presence or memory of literary authors or literary fiction representations.
Published in Chapter: Tourist Literature and the Architecture of Travel in Olga Tokarczuk and Patti Smith; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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Reading Between the Scenes: Cinematic Representations of Literary Tourism
Literary tourism is a niche of cultural and heritage tourism, and it refers to the act of travelling to visit places and landscapes associated with the presence or memory of literary authors or literary fiction representations.
Published in Chapter: Reading Between the Scenes: Cinematic Representations of Literary Tourism; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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