Part of the fun of summer vacation is making plans for where to go, but how do you decide?
Well, you’ll be surprised how many other people are inspired by the videos they’ve watched for their plans. It’s so popular that the industry even came up with a call for it, “set-jetting” (look what they did). Over there?).
Here are six movies that drew crowds to the locations where they were filmed and caused disorder among the locals.
Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit transported audiences to the landscapes of Middle-earth.
With its soaring mountains and rolling grasslands, the scenery is as beautiful as the epic tale of hobbits, wizards, and dwarves in the movies. Jackson shot the film in his local New Zealand and built an entire studio just to make the film.
What I couldn’t expect was how many other people would need to make a stopover on it after watching the movie. Between 2001, when the first film was released, and 2006, tourism increased by 40%, and 6% of all those who made a stopover in the country said that Tolkien’s films were part of the reason they went there.
The town (Hobbiton) that Jackson built for the films and which has been granted permanent prestige as a tourist destination attracts 650,000 people a year.
Local Hero was a successful British film released in 1983. It told the story of an American oil executive (played by then-superstar Burt Lancaster) who travels to a remote Scottish town to buy it and expand an oil refinery, but then falls in love. with the post and its inhabitants.
Tourists, especially Americans, soon began arriving in droves to stop at the striking locations in and around Pennan where the movie was filmed, in addition to the rows of waterfront homes. The beach scenes were filmed on Camusdarach Beach, which, probably near Pennan in the film, is actually on the other side of Scotland.
But the focal point for Local Hero enthusiasts is the film’s iconic red phone booth (Lancaster’s character calls his company in America every night) that sits on the edge of the beautiful harbor.
It is so popular that when, in 2021, BT planned to improve the kiosk, a crusade was launched to save it. And to this day, locals paint the phone booth so that it stays as good as possible for visitors who are still making the trip.
Danny Boyle’s 2000 hit The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about an organization of backpackers who discover a secret, unspoiled beach. That’s why it’s more than ironic that the film’s good luck result is Maya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh. in southern Thailand, where he shot the film, they temporarily became a secret and ended up quite damaged.
Shortly after the film’s release, tourists began flocking to Maya Bay. Before the film, about 170 more people visited each day. But at the height of Beach Mania, more than 5,000 people piled up on the sandy shores, which are only available via boat.
While the beach has been a local attraction, this influx of new visitors, usually foreigners, occasionally on speedboats, has caused great damage to the area. Coral reefs have been destroyed, plants have been trampled and trash has also become a problem.
Finally, in 2018, the beach was closed in an attempt to repair some of the damage caused. It reopened in 2022 with strict new limits on how many people can make a stopover and where they can go, but it still closes for environmental reasons. more than 20 years after the film’s original release.
Skellig Michael (sometimes called Great Skellig and with an Irish spelling of Sceilg Mhichíl) is the largest of a pair of rugged islands that jut dramatically out of the Atlantic Ocean, about 8 miles off the southwest coast of the Republic of Ireland. The stunning monuments are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in part due to the monastery on Great Skellig Peak, which dates from the sixth to eighth century AD.
It’s an isolated and lonely position, the best position for Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker to retreat to in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2017’s The Last Jedi, where he doubled down on Ahch-To, the water-covered planet where the Jedi lived. Founded order. .
After the release of the films, Star Wars enthusiasts flocked to Skellig Michael and other locations in the Republic of Ireland where the film series was filmed. The Irish Tourism Confederation estimated in 2017, after the release of The Last Jedi, that the film had earned the national tourism industry €40 million in loose advertising.
In 2016, 14,700 visitors took the boat and climbed the difficult stairs to the most sensitive part of the island, a figure much higher than in previous years. But this increase has raised concerns about the site’s coverage. UNESCO warns that a maximum of 180 visitors per day will be allowed.
“If you build it, they’ll come,” is one of the standout lines from the 1989 baseball drama Field Of Dreams, and when it comes to the baseball triangle built especially for the filming of the movie, they did indeed do it.
The film is about a farmer, played by Kevin Costner, who has the idea to build a baseball box in the middle of his corn boxes. To shoot the film, director Phil Alden Robinson’s team built a life-size baseball box out of a genuine Iowa corn box. , near the small town of Dyersville.
The film was a huge success and enthusiasts soon began flocking to Dyersville (which had a population of 4550 in 2022) to see the place with their own eyes. The city began to receive thousands of visitors a year and now authentic primary league games are played. in the countryside.
Author Stephenie Meyer hadn’t even visited the small town of Forks, Washington, when she set up her Twilight books, published between 2005 and 2020, there. But its reputation for its stunning forest landscapes and gloomy, cloudy climate are the best place to level its haunting history of vampires and werewolves.
Despite the fact that none of the film’s scenes were filmed in the city (most filming took place in Portland, Oregon), Forks was temporarily flooded with Bella, Jacob, and Edward enthusiasts. In 2004, the city received only 5,000 visitors, but in 2010, two years after the first film was released, another 72,000 people flocked to the small town, which had a population of 3,379 in 2022.
The influx of tourists was a boon for the region, which had suffered economically in the 1980s due to the decline of the local timber industry. Locals welcomed their new visitors by hosting Twilight tours, themed attractions, and even a Twilight festival in Forks to cater to fans’ wishes.
This article was published in June 2024.
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