When House of the Dragon makes its highly anticipated world debut this week, it may not be just enthusiasts who will be looking for every scene.
The tourist offices of the CORNWALL and Peak District of the UK, as well as their Spanish and Portuguese counterparts, will also be on the lookout, and for a large influx of additional visitors this year, travellers were encouraged through their most enchanting landscapes, all featured in the upcoming fantasy epic.
Its predecessor, Game of Thrones, reshaped the tourism industry in Croatia, Iceland and Northern Ireland in the decade following the start of filming in 2011.
Visit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell told the Guardian newspaper that he knew attractive local sites such as St Michael’s Mount, Mounts Bay and Holywell Beach, all featured in the new show, and hoped the crowd would come and see the monuments in real life. .
Cornwall has also earned the taste of exhibitions such as the BBC’s Poldark (both the original 1970s edition and the recent reboot) and ITV’s Doc Martin that were filmed in the area.
And it’s a similar story in the Iberian Peninsula. In Spain, tourism industry leaders are already preparing tours of the sandstone edges of Stanage, Curbar and the village of Hollinsclough, home of Dragon’s Back Ridge, while in Portugal, queues are expected. to shape in cafes and restaurants in the mountain village of Monsanto, when its cave houses and large granite rocks are familiar around the world.