How different cities and countries become attractive for tourists? Beauty of the nature, the historical value, tasty cuisine, and …the nomination to “Oscar”! It was the American Film Academy that made many non-remarkable directions popular for travelers, which increased the incomes of the local population from tourism.
Mumbai, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Despite the reputation of the most glamour city of India, Mumbai is also the financial centre of the country. The film “Slumdog Millionaire”, which got 8 statues at the last ceremony of “Oscar” awards, has made a trip to the city’s poorest area, Daravi, into the most popular film trip in the world.
Kyoto, “Memoirs of a Geisha”
Kyoto, the large Japanese city, was known enough due to the fact that it was the capital of the Country of the rising sun and the residence of emperors from 1794 to 1868. However, this fact alone wasn’t able to attract such a large quantity of tourists who have literally poured into the city after the film “The Memoirs of the geisha” was awarded 3 “Oscars”.
Rio de Janeiro, “The Motorcycle Diaries”
The film “The Motorcycle Diaries” is shot by motives of the book with the same name; it is about the legendary Che Guevara’s trip across the South America. During the five years that passed from the film’s release, it pushed a lot of people to an overland travel across the continent, coming to an end in Rio de Janeiro. A carnival, Copacabana and the huge statue of Jesus are quite capable of making one to feel the true taste of Rio.
New Zealand, “The Lord of the Rings”
According to the statistics, in the years preceding the release of “Lord of the Rings”, the tourist industry of New Zealand was in decline. However, after the film received the Film academy statue, in a very short time a big inflow of tourists was mentioned in reports of tourist department of New Zealand
Scotland, “The Braveheart”
Scotland with its magnificent nature and ancient castles could always offer much to tourists even without the film industry. But it appeared extremely attractive also to the directors shooting their masterpieces here. The most known film which was shot in this most independent part of the United Kingdom, is considered to be Mel Gibson’s film “The Braveheart”, narrating about the fight of the Scottish people against the Englishmen, trying to take away their land. The heroic saga has deserved 5 “Oscars”.
Transylvania, “The Dracula”
In total, more than twenty films were shot about the Dracula. It is unknown which one of them served to create larger popularity of Karpat landscapes and gloomy local castles. However, it is absolutely clear that the history about the Transylvanian vampire played the important role in the attraction of tourists to not very popular Romania.
The Grand Canyon, “Thelma and Louise”
Ridley Scott, who in 1991 shot the story about the waitress tired of her boyfriend’s cheating and her friend who was bored to death to be a housekeeper, made the Grand Canyon a place which tourists will always long for. The oldest national park of the USA became an excellent decoration for getting the “Oscar” for the original story of the film, which isn’t recommended to be watched by children under 18.
Florence, “A Room with a View”
An English film which was awarded 3 “Oscars” at once and many of the European awards, most likely designated one more place in Florence where tourists long for, than made this already well known Italian city more popular. A story of a girl opening for herself meanings of the words “romance”, “man”, “pleasure” during the trip across Italy, is considered to be a standard of a good taste. Only 3 million dollars were spent for film shootings in 1985, and in world hire it gathered 60 million.
Kenya, “From Africa”
It appears that not only Obama has served to the development of tourism in Kenya. With the background of African exotic nature, the love story of the Danish baroness and the local white hunter, mad about Safari, shot in 1985, supported the interest of tourists for this kind of entertainments for many years.
Salzburg, “The Sounds of Music”
The old film shot on the same name as the Broadway musical, dated 1965, deserved 5 awards of the American Film Academy and 2 “Gold globe” awards. In memories of the travelers seeing this cinema with a typical American happy end, Salzburg starts to be associated with a magic voice of the main heroine of a film – Marias Fon Trapp.
They have put Osaka’s pic where Mumbai should be. LOL!
These photographs are very beautiful.
Wonderful photos!
I would have thought Tuscany, Italy would be in this from the movie “Under the Tuscan sun” The scenery in that movie has made me desire to go to Italy more than I have to any other country before and I plan on retiring there.
Just to clarify…Thelma and Louise was not filmed at the Grand Canyon, but rather up near Moab, UT. And I’m pretty sure this movie has not made the Grand Canyon popular, it has been popular since the 1800’s. And it was created in 1919, so it is not the oldest national park (that would be Yellowstone in 1862). You might want to check into these pretty easy facts next time…