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Pop-culture tourism is the act oftraveling to locations featured in popularliterature,film,music, or any other form of media. Also referred to as a "Location Vacation".

Pop-culture tourism is in some respects akin topilgrimage, with its modern equivalents of places of pilgrimage, such asElvis Presley'sGraceland and the grave ofJim Morrison inPère Lachaise Cemetery.

Popular destinations have included:

• Petra, Jordan, where visits went from the thousands to the millions after the climactic scene of the 1989 filmIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed inAl Khazneh.^[4]
• Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, birthplace ofWilliam Shakespeare (1564–1616), receives about 4.9 million visitors a year from all over the world.^[5]
• Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England, where the original series of the BBC children's programTeletubbies was shot (1997–2001)^[6]
• Enoshima (Shōnan) andKamakura district, originally a local tourist spot nearTokyo. Many Japaneseanime andmanga series, such asPing Pong (1996),Squid Girl (2007–2016),Tsuritama (2012),Tari Tari (2012), and one-off episodes in other series, took place there. Due to appearance in the opening theme of the 1990s anime seriesSlam Dunk, an ordinarylevel crossing of theEnoshima Electric Railway, nearKamakurakōkōmae Station, became a popular attraction for tourists, notably fromChina andTaiwan.^[7][8]
• Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy, reported inspiration for the titular location ofCastle in the Sky^[9]
• Matamata, New Zealand, is the location ofThe Shire and Hobbiton inPeter Jackson'sLord of the Rings movie trilogy
• Dubrovnik, Croatia, is the location of King's Landing in theGame of Thrones TV series
• The former home ofBeatrix Potter, popular children's author, is now a museum open to tourists inNear and Far Sawrey, England
• The Hunger Games film series was filmed in multiple locations inNorth Carolina, including theHenry River Mill Village, which housed the Mellark family bakery and the Everdeens’ shanty, and theDuPont State Recreational Forest, where some scenes from the arena were filmed.
• Forks, Washington, the setting ofStephenie Meyer'sTwilight series.^[10]
• The crosswalk outsideAbbey Road Studios in London is a popular destination for fans ofthe Beatles, who were photographed using the crossing for the cover of their 1969 albumAbbey Road.

• Film tourism, a specific form of pop-culture tourism
• Seichi Junrei, pop-culture tourism forOtaku-related media
• Grand Tour
• Film commission, non-profit, public organizations that attract motion media production crews to shoot on location in their respective localities.
• Overtourism

• Fiction tourism travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Stephen Metcalf,Pop Culture Trips,Travel + Leisure Magazine, May 2006 (article about pop-culture tourism).

• Cultural tourism
• Popular culture
• Types of tourism

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