Social Factors of Development of Literary Tourism in the Nizhny Novgorod Region

摘要

The article deals with the the social factors of the development of literary tourism in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The authors believe that the development of literary tourism can be a real opportunity for economic, social and cultural growth, because the potential of literary tourism can be a resource for the development of regions. There is the issue of literary tourism retrospective in the article. Considering the origins of literary tourism, the authors point that literary tourism is based on the phenomenon of veneration of world classical literature and the tradition of meeting and studying local literary creativity. Planning a trip along the literary route, the tourist expects to visit places related to the life of the writer, places of life of the heroes of his literary works, to plunge into the atmosphere of the landscape-prototype of the art world of the work. The authors conducted a sociological study whose purpose was to consider the trends and prospects of the development of literary tourism in Russia. The results of the study showed that the Russian tourism industry has the task of drawing attention to literary tourism and developing literary and tourist routes for different regions of Russia in order to familiarize the population with the cultural heritage.