Welcome to the handbook RESEARCHING LITERARY TOURISM: A HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS AND SUPERVISORS.

Literary tourism is a field that is becoming increasingly interesting to students for numerous reasons. Research in this area has been on the rise for several years, yet researchers of literary tourism are often not well connected. There are, however, some exceptions in this field. One is TULE (Centre for Literary Tourism - Il Centro per il Turismo Letterario at the Perugia Foreigners' University), which brings together literary tourism researchers from Europe. In the creation of this textbook, the editor, Dr Jasna Potočnik Topler, who is also a TULE member, invited her TULE colleagues Dr Rita Baleiro (University of Algarve, CiTUR), Giovanni Capecchi (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), and Dr Charles Mansfield (The Writing Research Centre, UK Management College, Manchester), who research and teach literary tourism, to collaborate in writing a textbook on researching literary tourism.

This handbook is designed to guide students and supervisors through the fascinating journey of exploring literary tourism — a field that blends literature, heritage, history, culture, social sciences and tourism into a compelling field of study.