Film tourism: History and Key Facts

Film tourism, sometimes called film-induced tourism, set-jetting, or location-vacation, is a specialized or niche form of tourism in which visitors explore locations and destinations connected with films and television series, tour production studios, or visit media-related theme parks.

The term set-jetting, referring to the trend of traveling to destinations that were filming locations, was the headline of a 2007 New York Post article on the subject by Gretchen Kelly. It has become one of the biggest trends in travel.

Examples include touring London in a high-speed boat as in the James Bond films, or visiting the stately homes that are seen in the Jane Austen adaptations. The term is a play on jet-setting, a form of luxury travel in upper-class society.

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