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SEPTEMBER 2012
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ILLUSTRATION BY PABLO
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SHOCK! HORROR!
INCREASED OCCUPANCY RATES!
This month, “high-level decision-makers” convene in Hamburg,
Germany, to talk film tourism, a very popular decision-maker topic
ever since New Zealand struck gold with
The Lord of the Rings
(which bumped visitor figures there by 40 percent between 2000
and 2006). According to film tourism consultant Stefan Roesch, the
most “boostery” films contain romance and adventure, and li le in
the way of human misery. But every rule has its exceptions.
THE 2000 DYSTOPIAN YOUTH
DRAMA
THE BEACH
IS AWELTER OF
SHARK ATTACKS, SELF-HARMAND
GUN-TOTINGDRUG LORDS. NEVERTHE-
LESS, IN THE YEAR AFTER ITS RELEASE,
THE FILM FUELEDA 22 PERCENT RISE IN
VISITORS TO THE THAI ISLANDWHERE
ITWAS FILMED, KOH PHI PHI.
DELIVERANCE
, THE
NOTORIOUS 1972 FILM SET
IN THE NORTH GEORGIA
WOODS, ATTRACTED 20,000
VISITORS TO THE AREA IN
THE YEAR AFTER ITS RELEASE
AND HELPED CREATE A
$20 MILLION RAFTING
AND OUTDOOR SPORTS
INDUSTRY ALONG THE
CHATTOOGA RIVER.
LASTWINTER’S
AMERICAN REMAKE
OF
THE GIRLWITH
THE DRAGON TATTOO
HAS SET STOCKHOLM
UP FOR AWINDFALL.
THE HARROWING
THRILLER IS EXPECTED
TO BOOST TOURISM IN
THE SWEDISH CAPITAL
BY 3 TO 4 PERCENT
THIS YEAR, BRINGING
IN HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF EUROS.
THE 1993 WORLDWAR II
DRAMA
SCHINDLER’S
LIST
BROUGHT SUCH AN
INFLUX OF VISITORS TO
THE JEWISH QUARTER OF
KRAKOW, POLAND, THAT
THE CITY TURNED OSKAR
SCHINDLER’S FACTORY
INTO AMUSEUM TO
ACCOMMODATE THEM.
AFTER
THE BLAIR
WITCH PROJECT
CAME OUT IN 1999,
FANS OF THE CREEPY
ANTI-CAMPING
MOVIE DESCENDED
ON BURKITTSVILLE,
MD., STEALING SO
MANY STREET SIGNS
THAT THE TOWNWAS
INSPIRED TO SELL
REPLICAS ON EBAY
TOMAKE A LITTLE
DOUGH.
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