RMS Titanic with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the "Titanic" disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS "Titan", a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the "Titanic", she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats. Only recently has the significance of "Titanic" most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capital city, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of "Titanic", in its birth city, "Titanic" remained a taboo subject throughout the 20th
RMS Titanic to 30 million (100% rise by 2008). It was subsequently identified in the Northern Ireland Tourism Board's Strategic Framework for Action 2004–2007 that the significance of and interest in "Titanic" globally (partly due to the 1997 film "Titanic") was not being fully exploited as a tourist attraction. Thus, "Titanic" Belfast® was spearheaded, along with some smaller projects, such as a "Titanic" memorial. In 2012 on the ship's centenary, "Titanic" Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where "Titanic" was built. It was Northern Ireland's second most visited tourist attraction with almost 700,000 visitors in 2016. Despite