While the Warner Brothers’ Harry Potter tour will open at the Leavesden studios next year, The Guardian has come up with some suggestions for how to get a Harry Potter experience without paying quite so much. The suggestions include signing up for a walking tour around locations in London, visiting an owl sanctuary (they mention [...]

The Guardian‘s Charlotte Cameron pleads with British film-makers to get more accessible, and identifiable locations into their films to help boost tourism. According to tourist authority VisitBritain, the UK needs to find more emotional appeal to potential visitors. VisitBritain found in a recent international tourism survey that we lag behind other countries on “emotional measures” [...]

It looks like it’s not just films, but also TV shows that are driving set jetting. An article in The Telegraph states nine million tourists have visited the likes of Highclere Castle and villages Box and Neston, where Downton Abbey and Lark Rise to Candlerford are filmed, in the last 12 months alone. Research conducted [...]

Several big productions have helped drive up visitors numbers across the UK. Figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions demonstrate the dramatic impact of being used in a successful film. After appearing in Tim Burton’s film version of Alice in Wonderland, Antony House, the National Trust-run 18th century Cornish mansion, saw visitor numbers [...]

Tourism New Zealand, who really led the way with set-jetting tourism, have put together a nice page covering just some of the movie locations to see while visiting their country. It covers not just the obvious Lord of the Rings sites, but also films like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Piano, The [...]

I didn’t realise VisitBritain had a dedicated site showcasing films and TV shot in the UK with not just details of the production but also details of the locations, maps and photos to help you make your set jetting even easier.

VisitBritain has been making use of the Harry Potter films to promote the locations used around the UK. They have a dedicated page listing many of the sites. If Harry Potter isn’t your style, they have a dedicated microsite for film locations used in many of the films shot in the UK each year, from [...]

Another interesting article is posted on the MSNBC site (courtesy of Forbes Traveller), although the accompanying slideshow may provide more inspiration for places to visit. This is essentially an update of their earlier article covering locations from more recent films.

Forbes Traveler has a great article on set jetting, talking about a number of locations which are usually missed from most articles, but obviously remain a massive draw and it also goes to show that the effects of a film have a much longer-lasting and far reaching effect than many other forms of advertising. It’s [...]

The BBC has an article which mentions something I hadn’t seen before, those clever beggers at VisitScotland and Scottish Screen actually commissioned a short film produced to exploit the tourism spin-offs for Scotland from the Da Vinci Code movie. The film cost £50,000 and forms part of a £1.3 million campaign and was designed not [...]

Lindsay Hunt has written a great article on set jetting over at Visit Britain, but perhaps the best thing is the selection of links to other sources. Check it out to find our where even some of the most obscure films where shot, but beware it takes some trawling.

The Hawaii Film Blog has some interesting posts on set jetting in (you guessed it) Hawaii, with films such as Jurassic Park and Blue Crush, plus TV series like Lost, Magnum PI and Hawaii Five-O filmed on the islands they have an illustrious history packed into a small area.

Welcome to Scotland has details of the Edinburgh city break from Dooley Vacations, which includes a 6 hour DaVinci Code and Scottish Borders Tour. Your tour takes you south to the world famous Scott’s View, with stunning views over the Tweed Valley and the Eildon Hills. From here you travel to Melrose exploring the great [...]

For anyone interested in checking out locations for 2005′s Pride and Prejudice, featuring Kiera Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen you should check out the Visit Pride and Prejudice Country website. The site contains plenty of info about the film and locations as well as travel advice. Pride and Prejudice wasn’t the only thing to be filmed [...]

Estate Angels has a very comprehensive rundown of just how much set jetting can add to tourism, with some seriously big stats showing what a boost it can be: Locations featured in films and novels can benefit from a boost in tourism from Britain of up to 30 per cent according to new research from [...]

The Scotsman has an interesting article on set jetting with some interesting figures: More than a quarter of Britons say they have chosen a holiday destination after seeing it in a movie or a TV show, or having read about in a book. The biggest beneficiary of set-jetting had been New Zealand after the success [...]

USA Today has an article on jet setting (well, train setting) in relation to The Da Vinci Code. It seems

50 Connect have an article about set jetting in Malta, which has been the location for many sword and sandal epics including films such as Alexander, Troy, The Count of Monte Cristo and Gladiator (the replica of the Roman Colosseum used in the film was built at Fort Ricasoli, close to Valletta).

This is Travel feature an article on Set Jetting. It’s quoted that it can cause a 30% rise in visitors although it goes on to say that because of its mention in The Da Vinci Code, Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland saw visitor numbers leap from 9,500 a decade ago to 68,000 in 2004. As many [...]

Set Jetting is a phrase that describes the growing trend of people visiting places purely to see locations used in film and TV productions. The phenomenon has been around for a long time but more and more sites are starting to shout about their involvements in movies in an effort to increase tourism. New Zealand [...]

The Guardian recently reported on the growing popularity of set-jetting. A play on an old travel phrase, set-jetting describes visiting a location because you have seen it in a film or read about it in a book. This can be fairly general, Thailand has seen a 19% rise in tourism that has been linked to [...]