Our favorite series invite us to dream. What we did not know until now is that, in addition, also inspire us when choosing holiday destinations. And is that to visit the stages where the filming of one of the most successful fiction series of recent times took place and winner of 38 Emmy Awards seems an upward trend for Europeans. This has been revealed by the online travel agency Rumbo after comparing booking data for the last three years.
Destinations such as Dubrovnik or Malta - places where in fiction we could find extensive family sagas or queens with dragons - have seen their reserves increased by 409% and 78% respectively, coinciding with the opening months of the last seasons of the series. The occupancy data of the national destinations also increased; So reservations to Seville grew 29% after the premiere of the fifth season of television success.
Rumbo shares this information on the occasion of the premiere of the series next season and the launch of the #SummerIsHere video, which the online travel agency invites to visit the destinations where the series has been shot. These are some of the favorites of the most Die Hard Fans.
Coinciding with the start of the fifth season of the fictional series in 2015, which has one of its main locations in Dubrovnik, bookings soared up by 409% compared to the same month of the previous year.
As a result of its impact on the small screen, bookings to Morocco increased by 10% in the month of the release of the Fifth season in 2015 compared to the previous month.
The producers of the famous series found in Andalusia the perfect environment to create a distant world, warm and full of tradition. At the same time that the fifth season was released and the new world was on the screen for the first time, Bookings to Seville rose 29%.
Interest in visiting Girona increased with its appearance in the first episodes of the sixth season, and so did bookings according to Rumbo data: up to 50% more in May 2016 compared to the previous month.