Key concepts in literature and tourism studies

Rodrigues Baleiro, Rita; Quinteiro, Sílvia

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Rodrigues Baleiro, Rita

Quinteiro, Sílvia

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Research on literature and tourism must depart from a distinction between this field of research and that on travel literature. Although they both focus on the act of travelling, there are fundamental differences between these two research areas. The most obvious difference is the fact that literature and tourism studies foster the analysis of a much wider set of texts than that aggregated under the classification of “travel literature”. Furthermore, unlike the travel literature research field, which has existed for a long time, literature and tourism research is recent and, as such, not many scientific studies have been conducted.