Literary tourism
Literature Literary tourism or tourism is a form of educational or cultural tourism, in which the study travelers and hikers follow the footsteps of important writers. Sometimes literature Tourism is also called " Literatourismus ". This portmanteau is a combination of the words " literature " and " tourism".
Destinations
Search In literature tourism tourists ( " Literatouristen " ) places and sites, which are connected with the life and work of a writer or writers group. The locations are mostly to
- Birth, residential, holiday or death houses by writers,
- Schools and other educational institutions, which were attended by writers,
- Travel and migration routes of writers,
- Real world locations of events in the works of writers,
- , The writers have suggested or suspected to be fictitious places in their works sites, or
- Premises in which it has established, implemented or resolved a literary group.
In these buildings or their surroundings memorial sites ( eg literature museums, literary memorial room ) are often established to serve as the focal points of the tourism literature (eg Goethe houses, Schiller houses).
An important role as landmarks in the tourism literature play commemorative plaques on buildings, in which lived or worked writer.
Motives and effects
Tourists look at those places, to win by personal intuition a better idea of the life of a writer or a deeper understanding of his work. Sometimes solves the visit of such a facility in the preparation or in the aftermath of an increased reading of works or a more intensive examination of the life and work of the writer.
Particular manifestations
The greatest literary tourism routes in Germany are the German Fairytale Route, the Rheinische Sagenweg the Swabian poet road, the road Siegfried and the Nibelungen road. They are still under construction is the European Goethe Street.
For better orientation in literature historically significant areas of numerous literary guides are available in bookstores. Some tourist offices also offer " literati City plans " to.
Economic Importance
Not least because of the development of literary walks, trails and routes to literature, tourism has developed into an independent economic factor and engine of tourism.
The main carriers, supporters and beneficiaries of the tourism literature are:
- Authors and publishers of literary guidebooks;
- Publishers who embarrassed the works of the writer in question ( about the royalties partly also the writers themselves or their heirs );
- Museums and memorials as well as the fund-raising;
- Tour operators, travel agencies and transport companies / plants;
- Companies in the hotel and hospitality industry;
- The souvenir industry;
- Companies of the advertising industry;
- Communities.
Demarcation
For the tourism literature rather insignificant writers or poets monuments.
Not for the literature tourism are streets, squares and parks as well as public and scientific institutions, which are named after a writer only in order to keep the memory alive in public.