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In its second recent collaboration with travel industry giants, Disney will promote the new film "Planes" alongside American Airlines new aircraft.

One of the bigger successes of the LOTR trilogy and the new Hobbit one as well is that the New Zealand viewers fall in love with is its great outdoors rather than some closed off theme park, and this brings benefits to a much wider swath of businesses across the country.

The state’s $100,000 marketing boost comes on the heels of the much-publicized debut of Baz Luhrmann’s "Great Gatsby," which will keep momentum rolling if fans start heading to locations mentioned in the movie.

With big names and big money, the Paramount hopes it will make a splash in Dubai. While it's prowess beyond the reveal is still TBD, Damac has a track record of turning brand names into hospitality businesses.

Movie-inspired tourism is often a big seller. Although lots of "The Great Gatsby" novel took place on Long Island, part of the 1974 movie were filmed in Newport, which is making the most of the just-released fifth Gatsby film.

The impact pop culture has on tourism can be seen no where as clearly as the physical space in Universal where the Jaws ride is about to be replaced by Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley.

There’s intense competition for the revenue that film shoots bring in, and there are plenty of cities willing to look more generic to get a piece of LA’s booming tourism market.

The new studio attraction finally gives a public face to England's long film-studio history, and the royal visit gets it movie-star-like attention.

Although the tourism industry's contribution to the film production is low, it signals the value officials see in the power of movies to introduce a destination to potential new visitors.

A cynic may say that Depardieu will shill for anyone willing to give him meals and some cash. A non-cynic would suggest that Baku's tourism heads look at Google News before signing up a spokesman recently famous for peeing on a plane and abandoning his homeland for tax reasons.