The Bourdain Bump: Interest in Sicily Spikes After Latest 'Parts Unknown'


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For the last decade destinations have fought hard for airtime on reality shows, but we may be seeing a new metric for tourism success: the Bourdain Bump.
Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown is in its second season on CNN and every Sunday at 9pm Bourdain and the crew from ZPZ Productions head to a new destination. The series quickly gained a following after its premiere season in 2013 and later won two Emmys for best information series and outstanding cinematography for nonfiction programming for season one's trip to Myanmar. We were curious if a show that was both critically acclaimed and popular actually stirred consumer int