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Bookstore Tourism
We're all familiar with tourism based on a book like viewing covered bridges mentioned in The Bridges of Madison County or European escapades of The Da Vinci Code. Now enterprising marketers are hawking tours of bookstores. I first noticed one in San Diego a couple of months ago, then advertising for trips to L.A. Being an original, creative cogitator, I thought, "Huh?" Now I'm finding mentions of this phenom in chatrooms and fora and stumbled across The Bookstore Tourism Blog.
More info on the trend is found at Bookstore Tourism [books] Listen to this articleBookstore Tourism is a type of "cultural tourism" that promotes independent bookstores as a group travel destination. It started as a grassroots effort to support locally owned and operated bookshops, many of which have struggled to compete with large bookstore chains and online retailers.
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:05 AM
3 Comments:
Other than some of our trips to Disneyland, every trip or vacation I've ever taken with my husband of a quarter century has involved overlong visits to bookstores. John likes to go to a city, find a bookstore other than B&N or Borders, and browse for an hour or more. Sometimes he'll even settle forthe chain stores. I'm a bibliophile myself, but there are very few bookstores I can abide for an hour or more at one go.
We used to do the same thing with comic book shops and collectibles stores as well. Result: I've spent a lot of time grumpily standing around in stores in dozens of cities, having already looked at everything that seemed remotely interesting. I've spent very little time visiting actual tourist attractions in those same cities.
I see that you fixed the typo in the link to Outpost Mâvarin. Does that relieve me of the responsibility for finding a witty definition for the neologism "Ourpost?"
Karen
Karen, your comment here lifts any pressure may have felt for a jolly riposte. Thank Someone I have an appointment to get my vision checked next week! Also, possibly cutting 3/4 inches off my fingernails would improve my spelling. Thanks for the visit. I know you've been busy, what with the AOL aggravations and moving your blog (more or less).
Thanks for the mention, Georganna!
Larry Portzline
www.bookstoretourism.com
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