Da Vinci code tourism

THe midlothian chapel that figures [rather hurriedly] at the end of the Da Vinci code is apparently having a bit of a boom in visitors [esp USAm's. What will happen when the film comes out?

As to the books dubious 'claims' about Christian origins, I found that the Louvre staff maybe have a good approach:
[Quote]At the Louvre in Paris, meanwhile, where much of the action is based, spokeswoman Suzanne Pierce confirmed that visitors were raising the book with staff.
"The problem is it is fiction," she said. "We are not able to answer questions about it." [unquote].

Though I wonder whether it wouldn't be better for them to take head on the fictions and use them educationally? So ditto for the Christian church might be a bit more proactive than the Louvre response; put out the real story and all that...?

Should we take it seriously? Well since it was published in [quote] March 2003, it has sold almost 400,000 hardback copies in the UK and is near the top of the bestseller list. It has topped the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. It has been translated into 40 languages and will be made into a film.[unquote] With nothing else to tell them otherwise, what do you thihk readers and viewers are going to unconsciously believe about Christian origins, given that Allegro's mushrooms and other dotty popularised scholarship has already had the effect of making it that loads of people I meet 'know' that the Gospels are nothing like reliable... ? Incidently one reason for the [slight] conversion growth of Islam in the UK could be that it's foundation documents haven't had the going over that the Christian ones have. Discuss...