Oxford Tourist Office expects that the film Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” will attract the attention of travelers to the places where Lewis Carroll actually wrote his famous and all-favorite book.
The city representatives already managed to create a unique route called “Alice path”. The idea seems to be rather impressive. Wandering around not only gives a possible to revive in the memory all of the events taking place in the book, but also to become better acquainted with the famous sights of the ancient town Oxford.
“At the moment we sell a few tours in a month on ‘Alice in Wonderland’, and we hope that the interest in our tour packages will increase,” – told the tourism manager of the city council Joanne Butler, even before the movie was released.
Key landmarks of the two-hour tour are the church of Christ and the meadows belonging to her, and the Museum of Natural History, where you can learn more about the dodo, as it is believed by Daily Mail.
The College of the Church of Christ is not attracting the attention of the fans of cinema for the first time: it is also filmed in the Harry Potter films and even the fans of the book series about Harry Potter still come to Oxford to witness the legendary walls of it. This is quite reasonable as most of the time the fans are trying to feel themselves as the main heroes of the books.
Also recently, the National Foundation issued a study that the location in the historic parts of the country, although it is potentially dangerous for the old buildings, yet thoroughly helping to sustain the economy of the regions of Great Britain. This is quite important for the Britain as with the rest of the tourism attractions it’s not handling the competition.
Britain is quite wet and it’s often raining. This makes the tourists not to visit the place. Another important thing is that Britain has quite rural places for the tourists while the tourists prefer more active kind of resting. Thus the main attractions of the place remain the historical spots.
About 60 British sites annually attract attention of film crews, and then the tourists. Thanks to them, each of these places earns about 4.5 thousand euros per day. It feels out to be a fair balance- the places provides some income to the movie while the movie provides money for the place. Of course the fundraising of the movie is a lot more but as popular is the movie as many tourists come to visit the place.
Thus, “Alice in Wonderland” partly filmed in Antony House (Cornwall). According to the National Fund, about 3 crews work in the building and its surrounding gardens per day. This is – one of the most popular places for the movie fan visitors.
It is assumed that the shooting “Alice in Wonderland” in Antony House will increase the number of visitors this year from 25 to 65 thousand. Except that after the movie will go on for the renting, it will make even more tourist flows to the place.
Screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” with Keira Knightley in the leading role helped to increase the number of visitors to Basildon Park in Berkshire on 75%. The movie was turned into a total hit and thus even the British were coming to visit the place from the rest of the British territories.
The movie “Miss Potter” with Renee Zellweger also drew the attention of the public to Hill Top, where they were most of the children’s stories written by Beatrix Potter, and to the farm house next door, where the picture was shot.
Also one of the latest series of James Bond “Die Another Day”, was filmed in the Bay area Holywell, which added to the economy of the region around 550 thousand euros. This was not the first movie about James Bond shot in Britain, but none of the rest of series was as popular as this one.
The participation of British tourist attractions in the national and Hollywood film thoroughly supports the villages, small towns and entire regions of the country.
Another great way of getting more tourist is the actual fact that some of the celebrities are staying in Britain. Among the most popular ones we can name Kate Beckinsale, Kate Winslet, Guy Ritchie, Liz Hurley and of course the British trio of the movie “Harry Potter”.
The fact that some of the other celebrities such as Madonna prefer to stay in Britain once in a while is also a fact that makes the tourists to find the place appealing.
In addition to walking the neighborhood, tourists reserve local hotels, shop from local artisans and farmers. However, when going on a trip to the cinematic places, tourists should bear in mind that in reality they often do not look so exciting, like in the movies.
