01612nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001700043653001900060653001200079653002400091653002300115653003300138653001300171100002000184245004600204856015100250300001000401490000600411520094500417022002001362                                       d10aDark tourism10aEuropean Union10aFantasy10aintangible heritage10aLiterature tourism10aMystery and thriller tourism10aThriller1 aW. Strielkowski00aLiterature and tourism in European cities  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84936853263&doi=10.7813%2fjll.2015%2f6-1%2f8&partnerID=40&md5=ed45d9c6ac0c445e88fddb2732a65323  a38-410 v63 aThis paper focuses on the importance of literary tourism in European cities. Although tourism promotion based on the famous literary works has been known for quite some time, it gains special importance nowadays, especially in the context on global culture represented by bestselling literary works. This is especially relevant in case of European cities, since they often become the scenes and settings for the plot des-cribed in the works of modern literature. Local myths and legends associated with European cultural destinations, in particu-lar those represented in mystery and thriller literary works, and films based on these works, become an important aspect of the development of modern city tourism. The paper uses the example of the Golem legend of Prague reflected in numerous literary pieces in order to demonstra-te the relevance of literary tourism as a form of intangible cultural heritage in European cultural destinations.  a20780303 (ISSN)