Articles tagged “movies”

This is the new battleground for big-ticket destination marketing.

If you want to see Moore's movie, then pack your bags for Sundance. There's little chance Disney would allow this film to be released.

In this Sundance flick a Small World turns into a terrifying one on the screen, and the courtroom drama that may ensue isn't likely to be less frightening to the filmmakers.

Celebrity endorsements do matter, which is one reason Rihanna has a deal with Barbados to help push her home country to would-be vacationers in the U.S.

Film tourism doesn’t just have to benefit the location where travelers flock to see the set. Viking River Cruises has tapped into that success by offering a visit to the castle as part of its usual offerings.

Bollywood films don't get the attention of a, say, J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation, but they do more than any other genre of movie to boost destination tourism due to their massive audience base.

Even though still a small catalog of HD movies -- it has about 200 overall, beyond 25 HD -- the delivery of HD movies simultaneously to every seat back is still a feat.

Hotel Transylvania, the movie, video and game, typifies today's multichannel marketing, with its digital and social forays.

It says a great deal about how far Virginia has come that it is willing to grasp on to the "Lincoln" success to push tourism, especially since it was on the losing side of the war that Lincoln won.

New Zealand owes a great deal of its modern tourism industry to the films of Peter Jackson, but how far should they really go to both fund film and hitch their wagon to Hollywood dreams?