〚Be a featured Literary Tourist CITY〛
Nigel Beale, THE LITERARY TOURIST, works with tourism marketing officials and visitor experience executives to promote tourism and to help develop new visitor experiences.
⁋ He promotes cities as literary destinations by visiting local literary attractions, participating in literary events and activities, and interviewing local authors, booksellers, librarians, bibliophiles, tourism spokespeople and others. He also conducts LITERARY TOURIST CITY AUDITS.
⁋ His articles appear in various travel and book-related publications, and his blog posts, photographs and audio interviews are posted on this website. The interviews are aired as part of a popular podcast he hosts called THE BIBLIO FILE.
⁋ His City Audits involve researching and compiling inventories of literary destinations, activities and events in select cities. Evaluation and recommendations are designed to assist tourism officials in developing new and/or improved visitor experiences, and in attracting MORE LITERARY TOURISTS to their destinations.
About Nigel Beale ✧
⁋ Nigel Beale is an interviewer and writer, bibliophile and literary tourist. As host of The Biblio File podcast he has conducted close to 650 INTERVIEWS. He has had the privilege of talking literary tourism with Margaret Atwood; poetry with Alice Notley and Derek Walcott; publishing with Stephen Page, John Galassi and Richard Charkin; bookselling with James Daunt, Larry McMurtry and Sarah McNally; criticism with James Wood, Daniel Mendelsohn and Michael Dirda; literary festivals with Peter Florence; and book collecting with Heather O’Donnell, whose championing of young women’s book-collecting he heartily endorses, as he does every effort to promote BOOK CULTURE.
⁋ He has visited, patronized and taken photographs of thousands of bookstores around the world and written hundreds of articles and blog posts over the years detailing his literary travel experiences.
