Set-jetting (or taking a location vacation) is the trend of traveling to destinations that were the

filming location A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage. In filmmaking, a location is any place where a film crew wil ...

s of movies. Examples include touring London in a high-speed boat as in the James Bond films, or visiting the stately homes that are seen in the Jane Austen adaptations. The term is a play on jet-setting, a form of luxury travel in upper-class society. The term was first coined in the US press in the '' New York Post'' by journalist Gretchen Kelly in 2008. An analysis of the use of Geospatial technologies in set jetting was proposed by Thierry Joliveau in The Cartographic Journal. Corporations, convention and tourism boards followed the trend that year, creating their own set-jetting travel maps, like the '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' movie map published by VisitBritain.Elizabeth the Golden Age
''visitBritain.com/thegoldenage'' In June 2018,

Maya Beach Ko Phi Phi Le or Ko Phi Phi Leh ( th, เกาะพีพีเล, , ) is an island of the Phi Phi Archipelago, Andaman Sea. It is in Krabi Province of Thailand and is part of Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park Geography K ...

, made famous by Danny Boyle's 2000 film '' The Beach'', was closed indefinitely to allow it to recover from the ecological damage of mass tourism. The beach received up to 5,000 tourists and 200 boats a day.

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