Library tourism is hyped!

Fleur Morrison in HuffPost Australia blogged in 2017 that library tourism could be the next big travel trend.

With the summer heat of the sun, let’s keep the traveling spirit high while rains have yet to pour down from heavens beginning May and SUCs shift their enrollment from June to August! On April 22, right after Holy Week, Byaheng Aklatan 4.0 is on the road to outstanding libraries of Quezon City, Philippines. MLAI announces few more available bus slots to grab. 49 library personnel will make libraries of Quezon City Public Library, St. Paul University and Best Link College of the Philippines all-year round library destinations of 2019.

Interesting library trivia and features such as the following are attractions to guests and/or library tourists:

• Where does one can find a book vendo machine?

• What library started placing attractive staircase quotes?

• Is Zamboanga known for its sofa library or for its dental library?

• Bienvenido Ramos' memorabilias are housed in the Rizal library of Ateneo de Manila University? True or False?

• Will you identify 5 As of Library Tourism and Hospitality?

• Who coined this concept of 5As of Library Tourism & Hospitality which was borrowed from former Tourism Secretary and SBMA Chair Senator Dick Gordon?

• Can you name three educational institutions with forests and/or prominent trees inside their libraries?

• Have you spotted Enchanted Kingdom-like, fantasy school library in the South?

• Which school has a faculty library room that looks like a condo unit model of a commercial subdivision?