Description
Book SynopsisLiterary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the written word and travel. It includes tourism stories using guidebooks, films, television and electronic media, and recognises that stories, texts and narratives, even if they cannot be classified as traditional travel writing, can become journeys in themselves and take us on imaginary voyages. Furthermore, the book: - Provides a grounding in the theoretical perspectives on literature and the tourist experience; - Explores practical applications of literary tourism, such as destination promotion and creation, responsible tourism and learning benefits; - Uses global case studies to study literary tourism in action. Appealing to a wide audience of different disciplines, it encompasses subjects such as business literary writing, historical journeys and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The use of these different perspectives demonstrates how heavily and widely literature influences travel, tourists and tourism, making it an important read for researchers and students of tourism, social science and literature.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Theory Relating to Literature and the Tourist Experience 1: Travelling Against Time: Flemish Authors Travelling to Italy in the Interwar Period 2: 'Magic Realism' Of Vilnius: Conceptualization of Literary Tourist Gaze Based On Tales Of The Old Vilnius by Max Frei 3: Visionary Trends in Jules Verne’s The Floating Island 4: Connecting Temporalities: Walking Through Narratives of Guilt and Passion 5: Frontier Travel Narratives: Imagining the American West Through Novels 6: The Making of the Literary City: Edinburgh, Barcelona and Óbidos Part 2: Practical Applications of Literature to the Tourist Experience and Tourist Industry 7: Reimagining Emulative Journeys: From Classical Texts to Contemporary Travel Writing in the Digital Age 8: Response and Responsibility: Poets as Guides for Tourists 9: Learning at Literary Festivals 10: Library Tourism Part 3: Case Studies of Literary Tourism and their Effects on the Tourist 11: The Hay Festival: A Longitudinal Study on its Attributes and the Sustainable Impacts on a Small Welsh Town 12: Literary Tourism in the Indian Sub-Continent 13: Making Literary Places 14: Tourism of Literary Writing: The Brazilian Author as an International Tourist in the Amores Expressos Collection 15: Stay Eat Love: Travel Books, Italy and the Emotional Geographies of Place 16: Literary Tourism: Conclusions and Practical Applications
