posted on 2024-11-23, 08:00authored byHeather Mitchell, Mark Stewart
Governments around the world believe that tourism will increase if locations within their nations are featured in films. Money and other inducements are often offered to moviemakers to encourage them to shoot within a particular constituency. This article finds a positive and statistically significant relationship between successful films and tourism.
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article submitted for consideration in the Applied Economics Letters 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC; Applied Economics Letters is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2011.631888#.UeTtzofFV8E http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2011.631888