Cheapflights.com.au Identifies World's Top 10 Film Locations
Featuring New Zealand and Thailand Among the World's 10 Travel Locales Made Even More Popular Through Film
(firmenpresse) - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/27/12 -- With the first in another iconic trilogy, The Hunger Games, premiering just last week, and various others set to be release in the coming months, , online leader in travel deals publishing, celebrates by honouring the .
Movies have a huge impact on travel and travellers and there are plenty of valuable statistics to back this up. The National Brands Index shows that 40 per cent of holidaymakers would be "very likely" to visit somewhere seen on film or television.
Countries and regions around the world have seen significant rises in travel to destinations that have served as filming locations, as a direct result of having played the backdrop to those movies. Some prime examples of this include for Lord of the Rings, Nottingham for the Robin Hood blockbuster starring Russell Crowe, for The Beach and so many more. Robin Hood in particular generated a 5.5% rise in visitors the UK region of Nottingham.
"There's no doubt movies have a huge impact on all things lifestyle related, particularly travel. The right movie can pretty much act as free advertising for the destination in which it's filmed," says Oonagh Shiel, Senior Site Editor for Cheapflights.com.au.
"This is particularly true of stories that inspire us such as The Lord of the Rings or locations like New Zealand, Kauai or North Carolina, whose natural beauty is heightened by stunning cinematography," adds Shiel.
Cheapflights.com.au explores the first five in its Top 10 story, all diligently researched and hand selected by its in-house experts.
An early Bond film (The Man With The Golden Gun) showcased the beauty of Thailand, specifically the islands with those green-clad rocks that rise so magnificently from the turquoise Andaman Sea. A whole new generation of fans were entranced when Koh Phi Phi Leh was used for The Beach (2000). The Hangover Part II (2011) is Thailand's most recent appearance on the silver screen. That's Hollywood. Bollywood uses it too. More than 100 Indian films were shot there in 2010, attracting film fans from the subcontinent to create their own celluloid dreams.
There were films made in New Zealand (The Piano, Once Were Warriors) but when Peter Jackson made the Lord of the Rings trilogy and revealed New Zealand's otherworldly landscapes to the rest of the world, Tolkien Tourism exploded. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and now The Hobbit have cemented New Zealand's reputation as the film location of choice.
Kauai has been Hollywood's tropical back lot of choice for eight decades now. The most western of the Hawaiian islands, it oozes star quality. It's a shape-shifter too, pretending to be Australia, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and even, in the case of Avatar, a world that doesn't exist. Tropic Thunder used Wailua Falls and Kauai Sands Beach, Jurassic Park had Kapaa Town as a backdrop, and, most recently, Tahiti Nui appeared in George Clooney's latest film, The Descendants. The latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) was filmed there too.
evocative cityscape with its towering palaces, grand Georgian squares and sprawling, modern housing estates has played its part many times, from the earliest days of cinema. Its long and storied history means it can "act" whether films are set in Tudor, Victorian, Edwardian or Second World War eras. It also does a nice line in dystopian futures (A Clockwork Orange and V for Vendetta for example). Landmarks such as Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus are instantly recognisable, providing visiting film buffs with plenty of photo ops.
The South American country is well named for the movie business -- argento meaning silver after all -- and a slew of successful films has been shot there. Sometimes Argentina has stood in for other countries, as was the case with Seven Years in Tibet (the Andes were supposed to be the Himalayas), There Be Dragons (not Madrid, but Lujan) and On the Road, but it has plenty of pulling power of its own as we saw in The Mission (1986), Evita (1996) and the Motorcycle Diaries (2004).
Cheapflights has also created a Facebook quiz around the film locations where users are presented with ten movie locations from which to identify which movie was shot there, selecting from a multiple choice list. It's not difficult, only takes a minute and is loads of fun. To get started, visit
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