Evaluating the Use of Digital Cartography to Showcase the Intangible Heritage

Abstract

New narratives are essential for ensuring the sustainability of tourist destinations and improving visitor experience. One key resource destination that can be drawn on is intangible heritage, which digital cartography can help visitors to interpret. The overall objective of this chapter is to analyze—from a multidisciplinary perspective—the opportunities digital cartography offers for the exploitation of literary heritage. The authors present an evaluation tool (validated by experts), whose aim is to analyze the different dimensions and elements that should be incorporated in digital maps. The intention is to enable the analysis of existing digital literary tourism maps and to encourage the future use of the many options offered by digital cartography in maps of this nature.

Using geographical information systems in literary tourism: an analysis to the “An English family” novel, from Júlio Dinis

“…Literary novels can also have an important role in the definition of tourist content of a destination or in the creation of itineraries, as memories of an era, as descriptions of physical spaces and places and society through the way the author tells the story, from his experience and the social context in which he writes or through the characters and environments he creates (Arcos-Pumarola, Marzal, & Llonch-Molina, 2018). New cultural itineraries can emerge which respond to new tourist motivations and are communicated through maps, emerging as alternatives to traditional tourist guides (Arcos-Pumarola, Ribera, Casalderrey, 2022). Having this in mind, Donaldson, Gregory, & Murrieta-Flores (2015) have developed an article where they pretend to demonstrate how GIS can be used in the literary historical research, though the discussion of the development of literary tourism in Victorian Lakeland.…”