Film and tourism a popular update

This item is just an update of recent popular news on film and tourism,
film induced tourism.

Earlier items on this subject in this blog include

Hathaway walks to Santiago

or

Just a bench, worth a pilgrimage

The following examples are no traditional pilgrimage endeavour. Allthough, several scholars (Couldry, Hills, Beeton) consider film-induced tourism as a contemporary form of pilgrimage (says Leotta in 2016 Navigating Movie (M)apps). 

Don't know where to go during holidays? Some suggestions..

Dunkirk

Announcement trailer of the 2017 movie.

The tourist office is preped for embracing the market, click to go

See article in Viewnews on the fans in the harbour, click to go

As film shootings were also in Dutch Urk, why not make that part of your hunt.
See article here.

And for more background on film tourism in Nord Pas de Calais see this entry on northern-france-tourism.

Rail Bookings

Travel weekly had an item on increasing rail tourism due to film tourism.

“This year, for example, we can report that countries including Spain, Austria and Switzerland, all of which have been involved in major motion pictures recently, enjoyed a healthy increase in the number of train travellers from Australia and New Zealand in the first half of 2016."

See full article here.

The Big friendly giant

The Guardian features an article 'Hopes rise for big friendly tourist boost to screen locations of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic', click to go there.

Trailer

And VisitBritain launches a giant tourist campaign, click.

Norway overcrowded

Tourism to Norway increased since Disney's 2013 movie Frozen.

Damon's 2017 movie Downsizing will give another boost.

See article 'Frozen effect bringing 'too many tourists' to Norway' in The Local, click to see.

"Fredrik Sørdal, the mayor of the nearby town of Flakstad said the growth in tourism was “challenging”, warning that infrastructure was already at breaking point, with acute problems with waste disposal, public toilets and parking, and severe erosion on paths leading to popular coastal locations.  

 

“In Flakstad we have for example become extremely unbalanced when it comes to tourism this year, and need to take many measures before next year,” he said."

And finally some relativation:

"Depressingly, studies worldwide have shown that cinematic tourism has a limited life span as far as pulling tourists is concerned. In most cases, they are effective in kindling thoughts about a place in the minds of the clientele for a period of 4-6 months only."

says Benjamin Lyngdoh in Cinematic Tourism: It’s not that new and it’s not that bad.