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Game of Thrones tours launched in Dubrovnik and Belfast
DestinationsFans of the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones can visit sites made famous by the television drama on new walking tours around Dubrovnik and Northern Ireland. The tours visit some of the most popular filming locations and have been launched this summer by tour company Viator. Guides will be up-to-date on the latest gossip [...]
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What it’s like to star in a failed Travel Channel reality series
DigitalLast October, I was sitting high above Wall Street in the offices of Magilla Entertainment, the creators of reality TV smashes Moonshiners and Long Island Medium, when the call came in. A Travel Channel exec was on the phone. They loved our new show, Edge of America, and wanted to up the network’s order for [...]
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How “The Office” revived Scranton’s tourism economy
DestinationsNBC’s long-running “The Office” was a faux documentary about cubicle life. The Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. didn’t exist. Try telling that to merchants, tourism officials and regular folks here in the real-world city of 76,000, for whom the Emmy-winning comedy — which ends its nine-season run next week — had a tangible [...]
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‘Cake Boss’ bakery sets up shop on the new Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship
TransportCake Boss star Buddy Valastro can now lay claim to bakeries on both land and sea. An extension of the celebrity baker’s Carlo’s Bake Shop in Hoboken, N.J. made its debut over the weekend here on Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Norwegian Breakaway, which is sailing with passengers for the first time. Tucked into a corner [...]
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Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” episode 1 recap: Tony goes to Myanmar
DigitalThe Travel Channel’s biggest ex-star’s show premiered on CNN this evening, and it’s the Tony that everyone loves, with a bigger budget. Politics and current events of the Bourdain’s Parts Unknown is present for the start. With black and white videos, Obama, and Aung San Suu Kyi making an appearance before Bourdain’s usual tasting and [...]
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Mad Men’s travel advertisements: Inspiring the jet-set era
DigitalAt Sterling-Cooper, then Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, landing the big account is the focus, and there are few bigger accounts than airlines and hotel chains. In the first five seasons, Hilton and American Airlines drove the plots of several episodes, as well as brought star Jon Hamm close to the father figure he needed. Here’s [...]
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The small Georgia town that the Walking Dead brought back to life
DestinationsFrank Hollberg III, whose family has sold furniture in Senoia, Georgia since 1894, laughed as he recalled the odd sight of watching a man walk through the idyllic downtown holding a head in his hand. The head was a prop and the man an actor filming “The Walking Dead,” the hit zombie-themed television series that [...]
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VIDEO: Pure Michigan launches massive $13 million national TV campaign
DestinationsThe state’s “Pure Michigan” tourism campaign kicked off a $13 million national cable television advertising effort on Monday that is partly funded by several communities and the Henry Ford historical attraction in Dearborn. The campaign runs through the end of June, and includes plans to run TV ads more than 5,000 times nationally. The state’s [...]
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The “Breaking Bad” tourism boom comes to Albuquerque
DestinationsA fast-food burrito chain in Albuquerque has become an international tourist attraction as people come from all over the world to see the spot where a fictional drug trafficker runs his organization. A pastry shop sells doughnuts topped with blue candy designed to resemble crystal meth. A beauty store has a similar product — crystal [...]
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Atlantic City pins hopes of new tourism boom on the return of Miss America
DestinationsWhen Miss America announced she was leaving the city of her birth in November 2005, Atlantic City public works crews were quick to remove her plaque from the rose garden at the base of the expressway. Seven years of separation, however, hasn’t diminished the affection many local residents feel toward the beauty pageant that began [...]
