Setjetting

Set-jetting (or taking a location vacation) is the trend of traveling to destinations that were the filming locations of movies.^[1] 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.

Tourists on a "James Bond tour" of Khao Phing Kan island in Thailand, visiting a filming location of the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun

The term was first coined in the US press in the New York Post by journalist Gretchen Kelly in 2008.^[2] An analysis of the use of Geospatial technologies in set jetting was proposed by Thierry Joliveau in The Cartographic Journal.^[3] Corporations, convention and tourism boards followed the trend that year, creating their own set-jetting travel maps, like the Elizabeth: The Golden Age movie map published by VisitBritain.^[4][5]

In June 2018, Maya Beach, made famous by Danny Boyle's 2000 film The Beach, was closed indefinitely to allow it to recover from the ecological damage of mass tourism.^[6] The beach received up to 5,000 tourists and 200 boats a day.^[6]

References

1. "Set Jetting, Location Vacations, Book Tourism & Detective Travel". Cosy Pursuits. 2017-06-17. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
2. Gretchen Kelly (2008-02-19). "Set Jetting". New York Post. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
3. Joliveau, Thierry (2009-02-01). "Connecting Real and Imaginary Places through Geospatial Technologies: Examples from Set-jetting and Art-oriented Tourism". The Cartographic Journal. 46 (1): 36–45. Bibcode:2009CartJ..46...36J. doi:10.1179/000870409X415570. ISSN 0008-7041. S2CID 129927578.
4. "Movie Map". visitbritain.com. 2016-06-21. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
5. Elizabeth the Golden Age. visitBritain.com/thegoldenage
6. Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (2018-10-03). "Thailand bay made famous by The Beach closed indefinitely". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-25.