Tourism is a thriving industry worldwide and is a major source of revenue and foreign currency for many countries, both developed and developing. A few nations might even entirely depend on revenue from it. Tourism is of two types –domestic tourism and international tourism. Cultural tourism is a subset of both and is primarily focused on a country or specific region’s culture with an emphasis on how people live in that area, their history, art, architecture, religion and all other aspects that have defined their way of life through the years. A popular niche of cultural tourism in recent times is literary tourism. It deals with key locations and events of fictional works as well as their author’s lives. It could mean retracing the journey taken by a fictitious character, visiting a particular place associated with a novel or the author like their home, or even to visit their final resting place. Literary tourism is even considered a type of secular pilgrimage by some scholars. The first novel which took advantage of literary tourism was F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise: Interactive Tourism Edition. This book edition offered web links to Princeton University tours which the author actually attended, and also where the fictional protagonist of the book attends. In addition to this, it gave links to Montgomery, Alabama where the author met his future wife and where the protagonist falls in love.

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Literary Tourism Sector: Factors Promoting Growth

Literary tourism is an intersection of both the love of literature and tourism. It can be said that literature creates dreams while tourism actualizes them. Bibliophiles would love to relive moments of their favourite books, see where major events of both the book and author took place and also soak up the entire experience. They might want to visit the writer’s birthplace to seek inspiration or even their graves to pay their respects. Both of these locations are focal points for general tourists and literary pilgrims. The geriatric population in western countries is a particular focus for the literary tourism sector. These individuals have the spare time to indulge in their hobbies like reading and they also have the disposable income to actually visit the locations. A second driver is film-induced literary tourism. Several blockbuster movie franchises like the Harry Potter series, James Bond novels, Shawshank Redemption and the Godfather are based on popular books. Many film buffs who have not even read the novels may wish to explore the locations mentioned in the movies. They might even realise after visiting about how their favourite movies were inspired by novels! The third major driver is literary festivals held across the world. Some notable examples are the ones held in Jaipur, Shanghai, New York, LA and Edinburgh. They attract the world’s very best writers and present the perfect opportunity for fans to meet and interact with their favourite authors. They also help tourists to interact with the local communities that host them. The fourth literary tourism driver is simply nostalgia. People might wish to see if the site mentioned in a particular novel is as described, or it has been affected by the present and adapted to contemporary tastes.

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Literary Tourism: Key Regions

There are some regions that heavily promote literary tourism across the world. Some examples include the KwaZulu- Natal Literary tourism route, the homes of Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, and Leo Tolstoy along with many others. Even the graves of noted writers like Edgar Allan Poe have become a site of pilgrimage for literary tourists.

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